New Books Highlights January-June 2024

January–June 2024 New Books Highlights

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Contents

Preggatinis TM p. 42

Life on the Run p. 47

Hello, Norma Jeane p. 86

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Art, Crafts & Cooking

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Biography & Autobiography

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Business, Economics & Technology

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Fiction

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History & Military History

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Music, Theatre & Film

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Political Science

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Psychology, Self-help & Selfimprovement

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Science

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Sports, Outdoor Recreation & Travel

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True Crime & Criminal History

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New in Paperback

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Sales & Distribution

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Complete Crochet Handbook The Only Crochet Reference You’ll Ever Need

By Eveline Hetty-Burkart, Beate Hilbig and Béatrice Simon Complete Crochet Handbook includes step-by-step instructions to the basic stitches for beginners; advanced stitches for lace, cables, textures, and more; and instructions for techniques such as working in the round, adding edgings, understanding symbols and reading charts, and so much more. It is the only reference book a crocheter will ever need. Each stitch and technique is illustrated with photos and complete instructions. FAQs and hundreds of tips make this a treasure trove of crochet knowledge. A complete index makes it easy to find what you need.

Eveline Hetty-Burkart works as a freelance editor and author for magazine and book publishers. Although crochet is her favorite needle-art, her field of work includes a wide variety of handicraft techniques from design to creative implementation to instructions. She is co-author of The New Crochet Stitch Dictionary. She lives with her husband and son near Hamburg.

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Beate Hilbig studied fine arts in Nürtingen and worked as a freelance artist, designer, and author for many years. She has extensive handicraft skills in crocheting, knitting, and embroidery.

Béatrice Simon worked as a translator of handicraft books, and her long-standing passion for everything to do with wool and needles led her to begin designing crochet items. Since 2007 she has been blogging in French and German about her love of crochet as “lilli-croche,” in memory of her dear aunt Lilli, who taught her to crochet.

She resides in Brittany, France.

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This is the definitive guide to all things crochet!

Stackpole Books February 2024 368 pages 1270 illustrations Paperback 978 0 8117 7201 3 $36.95 / £30.00 eBook 978 0 8117 7202 0 $35.00 / £30.00 Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

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Vegan Candles 21 Soy and Plant-based Candles for Beginners

By Delphine Reposeur Making your own candles allows you to choose ingredients that are healthy for you and for the planet.

It also gives you the opportunity to play with a wealth of fragrances to create candles that are meaningful and purposeful for creating atmospheres of relaxation, warmth, concentration, energy . . . the possibilities are endless! Nearly any glass container can be made into a candle, so use your creativity and resourcefulness to combine containers, scents, and inclusions such as flower petals or coffee beans to make your own unique candles.

The candle-making process is simple. Even if it’s your first time, you’ll find success by following the instructions in this book. You’ll learn:the materials and tools needed to begin, and how to choose the best natural ingredientsthe steps necessary to make both container and molded candles21 recipes with the exact scents to combine to make candles for a variety of moods

Create your own 100% natural vegan candles!

Delphine Reposeur began making her own candles when she searched in vain to find vegan candles for her own use. She purchased soy wax and began experimenting with different scents and styles. Her candle creations drew the admiration of her friends, and a business was born, La Bougie Herbivore (@labougieherbivore).

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Stackpole Books June 2024 80 pages 50 illustrations Paperback 978 0 8117 7280 8 $17.95 / £13.99 Crafts & Hobbies • Candle Making

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Preggatinis™ Mixology for the Mom-to-Be

By Natalie Bovis, photographs by Claire Barrett

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A brand-new edition of a popular mocktail recipe book.

Globe Pequot April 2024 160 pages 78 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7262 0 $22.95 / £17.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7263 7 $21.50 / £16.99 Cooking • Beverages / Non-Alcoholic

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When it comes to knowing what to drink (and how and why) Natalie Bovis is your personal guide through Cocktail Land. The daughter of European immigrants (French and English) and spending summers with family in France, alcoholic drinks were healthily integrated into Natalie’s world-view, growing up. A little sip of champagne on holidays or a panaché (half beer, half lemonade) is a normal part of life for a young adult, in Europe. The integration of spirits and wine into everyday life occasions (often whipped up behind a full-sized bar in the family home) seemed as natural to her as, well, Apple Pie Martinis. Natalie has also had a lifelong affair with the written word, and wrote her first poem at seven years old.

As creator and editor of TheLiquidMuse.com, (website, blog, cocktail consultation, classes and an online show) Natalie brings two passions together by writing about cocktails and spirits from around the world.

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Within these pages are over 75 original Preggatini recipes highlighting fresh juices, herbs, and garnishes as well as ideas for Preggatini Parties—a modern spin on the humdrum baby shower. Organized by pregnancy stages and symptoms, this lavishly illustrated, pocket-sized, virtually intoxicating guide also offers quotes from famous moms and sidebars about pregnancy and health and such options as “De-virginize for Dad”—making these drinks applicable to all.

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Life on the Run One Family’s Search for Peace in War-Torn Ukraine

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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.

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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.

A gripping account of one family’s war experience.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers May 2024 260 pages 13 illustrations Hardback 978 1 5381 8573 5 $26.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 5381 8575 9 $25.50 / £19.99 Biography & Autobiography • Military

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Flow Engineering Using Value Stream Mapping to Achieve Clarity, Value, and Flow

By Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis A world of accelerating change demands a new generation of management with the skills to drive decisive action and elevate performance. Managers tasked with delivering results collide with peers whose conflicting goals, perspectives, and incentives freeze progress and create a glacial pace of change. New thinking and practices are needed to act in alignment.

You can’t copy-and-paste a solution, and you can’t do it alone. To collaborate effectively, you need to create a shared map of the territory; you need to pick your battles; you need Value Stream Clarity.

Readers will discover profound yet practical applications of systems thinking, psychology, and organizational design in this new book by value stream experts Andrew Davis and Steve Pereira. With a step-by-step guide to visualizing the outcomes, processes, and dependencies, Davis and Pereira use case studies from across industries to show readers how to unlock innovation and optimal performance. Learn how to co-create value stream maps of the hidden relations and interactions that constrain your teams, maps that everyone can align with and act on.

Steve Pereira is ‘The Value Stream Guy’ and lifelong workflow optimizer. He’s been improving flow in organizations ever since his first job making pizza.

Beginning in tech support, his quest to experience every aspect of business/tech collaboration and value delivery led him through IT management, build and release engineering, and systems automation.

Andrew Davis is the author of Mastering Salesforce DevOps. He’s a Salesforce architect, developer, and product leader with a focus on the human side of software development.

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Reach across the whitespace in your organization and replace friction with flow using Value Stream Clarity.

IT Revolution Press June 2024 272 pages Paperback 978 1 9505 0845 7 $32.00 / £25.00 Business & Economics • Project Management

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World of War A History of American Warfare from Jamestown to the War on Terror

By William Nester World of War is an epic journey through America’s array of wars for diverse reasons with diverse results over the course of its existence. It reveals the crucial effects of brilliant, mediocre, and dismal military and civilian leaders; the dynamic among America’s expanding economic power, changing technologies, and the types and settings of its wars; and the human, financial, and moral costs to the nation, its allies, and its enemies.

Nester explores the violent conflicts of the United States—on land, at sea, and in the air—with meticulous scholarship, thought-provoking analysis, and vivid prose.

William Nester is a professor at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. He has written more than two dozen books on global politics/power and the history of warfare, including books about Europe’s colonial wars in North America, Napoleon, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles De Gaulle, and Winston Churchill. His book George Rogers Clark: “I Glory in War” received a 2013 Distinguished Writing Award from the Army Historical Foundation; bestselling author Douglas Brinkley praised it as “an important contribution to early U.S. history.” He lives in Fresh Meadows, New York.

Explores the violent conflicts of the United States—on land, at sea, and in the air—with meticulous scholarship, thought-provoking analysis, and vivid prose.

Stackpole Books March 2024 448 pages 15 illustrations Hardback 978 0 8117 7378 2 $39.95 / £30.00 eBook 978 0 8117 7379 9 $38.00 / £30.00 History • Military / United States

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I Hate Old Music, Too How Familiarity & Overkill Killed Our Favorite Music

When Dave Thompson’s I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto published in 2008, the book did not so much divide the world of rock reading as leave it in an uproar.

It started arguments, it ended debates, and for the author of over 150 music books, it not only received the strongest reader response of any book he’d written, it also still crops up in author interviews today. lmost fifteen years later, however, much has changed, and the classics have lost some of their bite as well.

In I Hate Old Music, Too, Thompson recasts the story of “classic rock” in the 21st century. Among the targets of his ire are lavish box sets that mostly just duplicate the albums you already own; comebacks and reunions featuring half or even fewer of the band members; the dark side of the “vinyl revival”; the continued cult of The Beatles; and much more.

Dave Thompson is the author of over 150 books, including co-written memoirs with New York Doll Sylvain Sylvain, Motown legends Brian and Eddie Holland, Hawkwind’s Nik Turner, the Yardbirds’ Jim McCarty, Fairport Convention’s Judy Dyble, and more. He is a columnist for Goldmine magazine, and his work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Alternative Press, Mojo, Record Collector, and many other major publications. He has contributed to music documentaries produced by VH-1, A&E, the BBC, and others. Born in the UK, Thompson is now a resident of Delaware.

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A worthy follow-up to Thompson’s uproariously funny and thoughtprovoking 2008 hit.

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Backbeat April 2024 232 pages 38 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7351 1 $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7352 8 $23.50 / £17.99 Biography & Autobiography • Music

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Hello, Norma Jeane The Marilyn Monroe You Didn’t Know

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Elisa Jordan is a respected writer, editor, and historian whose work has appeared in a variety of publications.

She has been studying Marilyn Monroe since the age of five, after seeing Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on TV, and is currently regarded as a leading authority on Marilyn.

She also gives tours devoted to Marilyn, Jean Harlow, the Doors, and rock ’n’ roll in Hollywood, a role that led her to help cofound the Los Angeles Tour Guides Association.

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Her unforgettable image is seared into the minds of fans everywhere, and her private life continues to inspire headlines and controversy, but Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous—and misunderstood—women in the world who remains a mystery to most people. On Marilyn cuts through the rumors and myths to present the real person behind the queen of movies and pop culture. From her chaotic childhood in Depression-era Los Angeles to her rise in the world of Hollywood and finally her untimely death—On Marilyn explores the legendary star’s family history, connection to the movies from childhood, her personal life as an adult, and her interest in continually educating herself. On Marilyn is compulsively readable—instead of chronological dates and dry accounts of events, there are chapters about specific aspects of her life and career. What did Marilyn like to eat? What types of books did she read? Was she really plus size? Did she nearly bring down a political empire? And how did she actually die? This book explores everything—and vividly brings to light the truth about the world’s greatest movie star.

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This accessible and comprehensive guide reveals the human being behind the legend of cinema’s brightest star.

Applause January 2024 360 pages 117 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 5395 7 $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 4930 5396 4 $23.50 / £17.99 Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

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The Crow The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Classic Film

By Bridget Baiss In the thirty years since its release, The Crow has become the ultimate cult movie, with a dedicated worldwide following, two sequels, and a persistent fascination owing to the tragedy that came to define its legacy, in which star Brandon Lee was killed in a strange on-set accident during the last days of filming.

In this fully revised and updated edition, author Bridget Baiss tells the full story of The Crow, from the initial adaptation of James O’Barr’s graphic novel, through its production and Lee’s death, to its final, triumphant release and enduring appeal. Drawing on unprecedented access to the film’s cast and crew, including new interviews and research conducted since the release of the first edition, this is a fascinating and revealing look at the troubled making of a modern classic.

A fascinating and revealing look at the troubled making of a modern classic.

Over her career, Bridget Baiss has been an entertainment journalist and producer working with media agencies around the globe. She currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area.

Applause April 2024 344 pages 26 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7411 2 $27.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7412 9 $26.50 / £19.99 Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

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James Bond and the Sixties Spy Craze

By Thomas Shubilla Of all the novel cultural confections to appear during the 1960s, one of the more peculiar was the nearly insatiable hunger of audiences for spy stories. Bubbling with sex and violence, and marrying pop-culture cool with a funhouse-mirror vision of Cold War geopolitics, the obsession with spy stories found its most popular and lucrative outlet in the James Bond franchise. But beyond 007, there were a host of competing movies and television programs that ranged from inspired to hopelessly derivative—among them the Flint and Harry Palmer movies, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible, The Avengers, and countless others.

James Bond and the Sixties Spy Craze delves into the cultural trends that produced such a flowering of interest in spy stories, from the Cold War and JFK’s enthusiasm for Ian Fleming’s novels to the unexpected success of the five original Bond movies by Eon Productions, all of them starring Sean Connery. Covered here are the cinematic spin-offs and television take-offs on the genre, as well as the explosion of merchandising in the form of toys, comic books, and model kits. The book also features interviews with some of the key players of the sixties spy trend who are still with us, such as Lana Wood, Caroline Munro, Martine Beswick, Madeline Smith, George Lazenby, and others. Packed with behind-the-scenes anecdotes and illuminating insights, this is a loving tribute to a venerable pop-culture genre.

Thom Shubilla is the author of Primetime 1966-1967: The Full Spectrum of Television’s First All-Color Season. He has written numerous articles and conducted reviews for Screem and writes about classic horror films for Monster Bash Magazine.

A loving tribute that delves into the cultural trends that produced a flowering of interest in spy stories.

Applause June 2024 256 pages 58 illustrations Hardback 978 1 4930 7976 6 $32.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 4930 7977 3 $31.00 / £25.00 Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

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The 12-Hour Film Expert Everything You Need to Know about Movies

By Noah Charney and James Charney In The 12-Hour Film Expert, Noah Charney and James Charney offer readers all they need to know about how films are made and how to watch them in a more thoughtful way. Through twelve chapters covering a wide array of genres and periods, the authors highlight key films in each area of focus and explore important figures and more recent films to help readers develop their core understanding of films, ranging from comedies to silent films, noirs to romances, and everything in between.

Most importantly though, readers will learn how to truly watch movies. The result is a capsule-sized “course” in film appreciation. The only book readers need to master their grasp of film history, technique, and appreciation, it is perfect for movie lovers of all ages. Grab the popcorn and settle in!

Noah Charney, PhD is the internationally best-selling author of more than a dozen books, translated into fourteen languages, 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, American University of Rome, and University of Ljubljana. He lives in Slovenia.

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

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James Charney, MD is a child and adolescent psychiatrist on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine. Bringing together together his expertise in understanding and treating mental illness and his passion for film, he taught a course on film called “Madness at the Movies” for 15 years as a senior seminar at Yale, the American University and Arcadia University in Rome, and as workshops at University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and in Umbria, near Orvieto, Italy.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 224 pages Hardback 978 1 5381 7342 8 $34.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7343 5 $32.00 / £25.00 Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

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Exploring Hate An Anthology Edited by Joshua A. Geltzer, Dipayan Ghosh and Robert L. McKenzie The threat of real-world violence from hateful extremism is growing and there is an increasing public outcry for governments, tech companies, and others to address the deadly effects of hate-inspired violence. As extremists and hate groups become savvier at mobilizing through social media, calls for stronger, swifter responses are growing more intense. Yet these responses must be based on research and data, rather than fear and intuition. In order to formulate the right responses, there are still many unanswered questions that must be addressed.

What are the actual constellations and contours of hate groups in the United States? What are the dynamics of connection between online activities and real-world violence? And what can been done to provide more support to impacted individuals and communities?

In an attempt to answer these and other vexing questions, the authors have curated a diverse set of essays from scholars, public intellectuals, community leaders, policymakers, religious clerics, tech industry officials, and victims themselves. Taken together, these essays not only explore the different manifestations and consequences of hate today but also offer concrete and actionable solutions.

Joshua Geltzer is the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center as well as an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America. Dipayan Ghosh is Pozen Fellow and codirector of the Platform Accountability Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Robert McKenzie is a Director and Senior Fellow at New America and adjunct professor at Columbia University.

A guide for understanding hate— and the options for addressing it.

Brookings Institution Press February 2024 314 pages Paperback 978 0 8157 3803 9 $27.99 / £19.99 eBook 978 0 8157 3804 6 $26.50 / £19.99 Political Science • Political Ideologies / Radicalism

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A New Masculinity A Compassionate Guidebook to Men’s Mental Health

By Stephan B. Poulter A looming health crisis faces men who find themselves stuck in today’s changing world. Slowly, more and more men are learning the positives that come from talking openly about their struggles with mental and physical health.

In this incisive and insightful guide to male mental health, popular clinical psychologist Stephan B. Poulter, Ph.D., unpacks the various issues that stem from male shame, including those surrounding anger, sexual orientation, wealth, physical performance and appearance, relationships, and much more. A New Masculinity is a practical guide for men of all ages to embrace their on-going process of developing a balanced, compassionate, and positive masculinity. Through case studies of real-life men from all walks of life this book provides helpful analysis and practical, reader-focused exercises. Above all, A New Masculinity shows that embracing who and what you are is a pivotal part of your masculinity journey. By uncovering the interconnections of physical health, mental health, and personal motivation, this comprehensive guide will give you the tools to become your best self.

Stephan B. Poulter, Ph.D., is a renowned Los Angeles based clinical psychologist in private practice with over thirty years of experience. Dr. Poulter brings a fresh and original perspective as a former law-enforcement office, seminary graduate, psychologist, father, and author to some of the timeless questions of families, parents, fathers, mothers, marriage/divorce, and emotional shame. He is the author of The Shame Factor, The Art of Successful Failure, Your Ex-Factor, The Mother Factor, The Father Factor, and Father Your Son. Dr. Poulter is married, a father of four children and father to four dogs. He resides in Los Angeles, California.

A practical guide for men of all ages to embrace their ongoing process of developing a balanced, compassionate, and positive masculinity.

Prometheus May 2024 272 pages Paperback 978 1 6338 8942 2 $22.95 / £17.99 eBook 978 1 6338 8943 9 $21.50 / £16.99 Psychology • Mental Health

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Mastery How Learning Transforms Our Brains, Minds, and Bodies

By Arturo E. Hernandez To the outsider, an expert seems as if they are doing everything effortlessly. A master chess player, an expert golfer, and a prolific writer seem to be able to quickly home in on what needs to be done and execute flawlessly over and over again. How do we master new skills? How do our brains and bodies transform performance from novice to expert?

In Mastery, Arturo E. Hernandez shows that new skills are not built but rather bloom from the combination and recombination of small parts that come to represent a new whole. The process by which smaller things are blended over and over again is one that is not just restricted to high-level experts. Uniting the latest research findings from a cross section of disciplines with compelling storytelling, Mastery shows readers how the blooming of abilities can work in their favor and lead them to achieve much more than they thought was possible. Whether mastering a new language, learning to play a musical instrument, or sharpening your memory, Hernandez teaches readers how to take advantage of our adaptability and open our minds to their fullest potential.

Arturo E. Hernandez, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology at the University of Houston specializing in the brain bases of bilingualism. He is the winner of the Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany and a Fulbright Global Scholar award, among other awards. He is the author of The Bilingual Brain and has written more than 80 journal articles. As a child, Hernandez was exposed to four languages and became proficient in two of them, English and Spanish. He learned Portuguese as a third language in early adulthood and German in his thirties. He is also an avid tennis player, having competed in tournaments himself and spent time coaching his children.

A fascinating tour of cognition that reveals the path to surprising potential.

Prometheus June 2024 200 pages 13 illustrations Hardback 978 1 6338 8940 8 $27.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 6338 8941 5 $26.50 / £19.99 Psychology • Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

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Feedback Uncovering the Hidden Connections Between Life and the Universe

By Nicholas R. Golledge We live in a world where things come and go, rise and fall, grow and decay, tracing out cycles of change that are ordered and predictable. Earth and the life upon it have evolved over billions of years to be right where we are now only because of feedbacks that pushed those systems until they broke. And then those systems adapted, reorganized, and rebuilt. With each new cycle of growth it was feedbacks that created order from disorder and gave rise to a world perfectly optimized for everything it needed to be.

Now the latest scientific research is revealing that the exact same patterns that describe plate tectonics, evolution, and mass extinctions also emerge in the heartbeat of our everyday lives, underpinning everything from the cohesion of our social networks and personal relationships to our emotional well-being and spiritual beliefs. In Feedback, we embark on a backstage journey revealing how these lesser-known processes keep us operating right where we need to be, poised at the edge of chaos. In a world simultaneously threatened with social and environmental disasters this journey uncovers the hidden connections that unite us not just to those around us but also across vast scales of time and space to the very fabric of the universe.

Nicholas Golledge is an internationally INTER recognized climate scientist based in NATIONAL AUTHOR Wellington, New Zealand. He uses a combination of field, laboratory, and computer-based techniques to answer fundamental questions about how the Earth works. He is frequently interviewed for television, radio, and print media and his work has been covered by publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and National Geographic.

A fascinating journey into the little-known feedback processes that govern our daily lives.

Prometheus January 2024 250 pages Hardback 978 1 6338 8933 0 $28.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 6338 8934 7 $26.50 / £19.99 Science • Philosophy & Social Aspects

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Outdoor Life Lists A List-by-List Guide to Enjoying the Great Outdoors

By Barbara Ann Kipfer Outdoor Life Lists is an informative celebration of the

outdoors. Look inside to find 75 checklists covering the essentials needed and potential extras to consider for enjoying outdoor sports, recreation, and activities. These lists cover the things you need to bring and wear to participate fully and safely in every activity. Also included are informative callout lists that may come in handy in various outdoor situations. To top it off, other callouts offer snippets describing things one may observe during the outdoor activity.

Barbara Ann Kipfer is an archaeologist, lexicographer, former sports writer, hiker, and author. She has written more than 65 books and calendars, mostly lists, including 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, 5,203 Things to Do Instead of Looking at Your Phone, SelfMeditation,Instant Karma, 8,789 Words of Wisdom, and The Wish List, 4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone, Roget’s International Thesaurus, and 1,001 Ways to Live Wild, 1,001 Ways to Slow Down, and 1,001 Ways to be Creative. Find more of Barbara’s work online at www.thingstobehappyabout.com.

The ultimate resource for list lovers to get ready for the great outdoors.

Falcon Guides June 2024 232 pages 400 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7668 0 $22.95 / £17.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7667 3 $21.50 / £16.99 Sports & Recreation • Outdoor Skills

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The Boston Marathon Handbook An Insider’s Guide

By Marc W. Pollina Every third Monday each April since 1897, the fastest endurance athletes in the world converge on Boston, Massachusetts to run planet Earth’s most prestigious road race, the Boston Marathon. What began with fifteen runners toeing the start on a dirt road is now a global phenomenon, attracting millions of online viewers, more than 500,000 spectators, and 30,000 of the fastest athletes from 120 countries around the world. Books chronicle its storied history. Memoirs highlight its penchant for self-transformation. The Boston Marathon Handbook takes a different tack, delivering everything we need to know – how to prepare, what to wear, how to qualify, where to celebrate, who to emulate, how to race, and everything else critical (and not so critical) – to ensure race-day success.

In a reverent yet tongue-in-cheek style, The Boston Marathon Handbook educates and entertains in equal measure. Marc W. Pollina presents us with the definitive field guide to the Boston Marathon for participants, aspirants on the cusp of participating, and athletes who dream of participating. The book features tips on getting in, training, navigating Boston and the runners’ expo, racing through each town, celebrating after the finish, shaking off the post-race blues, and figuring out what challenge to pursue next in one entertaining package.

The essential guide to Boston Marathon success.

Falcon Guides April 2024 256 pages 264 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7902 5 $22.95 / £17.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7903 2 $21.50 / £16.99 Sports & Recreation • Running & Jogging

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The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery Rest, Relax, and Restore for Peak Performance

By Sage Rountree Recovery—physical and mental—is a red-hot topic, and the worlds of sports, technology, and commerce have all taken note. But which practices and devices really make a difference in recovery, and which should be avoided?

What will truly maximize performance? In this second edition of The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery, endurance and recovery coach Sage Rountree, PhD, explains exactly how to get the most out of training by optimizing recovery time.

Rountree begins by examining the importance of recovery, how athletes can measure their own state of recovery, and what can go wrong when recovery is insufficient. Rountree then provides proven techniques to enhance recovery and improve performance, emphasizing the fundamentals of sleep, nutrition, and stress management. Finally, readers are provided with various sample recovery plans for all types of training and competition.

This second edition features up-to-date research that has emerged to support the importance of basic recovery strategies and includes a much-needed, careful look at new devices on the market. The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery provides readers with an evidence-based approach to finding the right balance between stress and rest.

Sage Rountree, PhD, is a specialist in yoga for athletes, an endurance sports coach, a yoga teacher trainer at the highest level, and co-owner of the Carolina Yoga Company. Sage is the author of many books, including The Athlete’s Guide to Yoga, The Runner’s Guide to Yoga, and Racing Wisely. She has written for Runners World, Yoga Journal, and USA Triathlon Life, among others. For more information, visit sagerountree.com.

An invaluable guide to help athletes maximize training gains by making the most of their recovery time.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers May 2024 248 pages 88 illustrations Paperback 978 1 5381 8147 8 $19.95 / £14.99 eBook 978 1 5381 8148 5 $19.00 / £14.99 Sports & Recreation • Exercise / General

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The Orvis Ultimate Book of Fly Fishing Secrets from the Orvis Experts

By Tom Rosenbauer The Orvis Ultimate Book of Fly Fishing is a grand tour of the world of fly-fishing strategies and techniques, from Orvis’s world-famous team of experts and advisors. In large format with rich and helpful color photos and drawings, the book covers everything from basic fishing knots and casts to expert techniques you won’t see in standard books.

Besides trout technique and secrets for rivers and lakes, the book also covers the worlds of fly fishing for bonefish, striped bass, permit, bluefish, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, and steelhead. Learn how to nymph for steelhead from Matt Supinski. Find out how to catch the elusive permit from Jack Samson. Take a lesson from John Shewey on swinging a classic wet fly for West Coast steelhead. Learn how to find stripers along Northeast beaches from Lou Tabory. Find out which knots work best for saltwater fly fishing. Tom Rosenbauer will tell you how to read a trout stream and approach the fish, then discover his secrets for catching trout on dry flies and nymphs. Jim Lepage shares his knowledge on catching trout in ponds and lakes, then Bill Tapply will tell you how to catch freshwater bass on flies. Polish your fly casting with world expert Tom Deck. All this and much more in the most comprehensive and attractive book in the Orvis line.

Tom Rosenabauer is the author of The Orvis Guide to Reading Trout Streams, The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide, and many other important books for fly fishers. He is the vice president of marketing at the Orvis Company in Manchester, Vermont.

A valuable reference for novice and expert anglers alike, from the world’s most respected name in fly fishing.

Lyons Press June 2024 256 pages 345 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 8155 4 $34.95 / £30.00 Sports & Recreation • Fishing

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Europe by Eurail 2024 Touring Europe by Train

By Laverne Ferguson-Kosinski, revised by Darren Price Europe by Eurail has been the train traveler’s one-stop source for visiting Europe’s cities and countries by rail for nearly fifty years. Newly revised and updated, this comprehensive annual guide provides the latest information on fares, schedules, and pass options, as well as detailed information on more than one hundred specific rail excursions and sightseeing options.

LaVerne Ferguson-Kosinski and her late husband, George Ferguson, first coauthored this unique and comprehensive how-to guide in 1980. They also coauthored Britain by BritRail (Globe Pequot).

A complete up-to-date guide for touring Europe by rail.

Globe Pequot May 2024 582 pages 21 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7812 7 $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7813 4 $23.50 / £17.99 Travel • Food, Lodging & Transportation / Rail Travel

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The Basketball Book of Why (and Who, What, When, Where, and How) The Answers to Questions You’ve Always Wondered about Hoops

By Wayne Stewart How was basketball born? Why is the area in the paint and around the free throw circle known as the key?

When did the NBA begin play? What team was arguably the worst NBA squad ever? Who was the highest drafted college player who never played a single game in the NBA? This book provides over 100 questions and detailed answers concerning the traditions, rules, and history of basketball. Organized by the sport’s three eras—its birth through 1945, the NBA from 1946 through 1999, and the game today—it answers questions about the sport at all levels, from college games to the Olympics. A bonus chapter provides a who, what, when, where, why, and how of basketball—the perfect resource to settle arguments or to answer challenging trivia questions.

Wayne Stewart is the author of thirty-eight 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.

The book all basketball fans need.

Lyons Press January 2024 160 pages Paperback 978 1 4930 7276 7 $19.95 / £14.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7277 4 $19.00 / £14.99 Sports & Recreation • Reference

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The Thefts of the Mona Lisa The Complete Story of the World’s Most Famous Artwork

By Noah Charney If you read one book on the Mona Lisa, let this be it. From the artwork to its theft and role in popular culture, The Thefts of the Mona Lisa provides the complete story.

Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait, the Mona Lisa, is without doubt the world’s most famous painting. It achieved its fame not only because it is a remarkable example of Renaissance portraiture, but because of its criminal history. The Mona Lisa (also called La Gioconda or La Joconde) was stolen on 21 August 1911 by an Italian, Vincenzo Peruggia. His successful theft of the painting from the Louvre, the farcical manhunt that followed, and Peruggia’s subsequent trial in Florence were highly publicized catapulting an already admired painting into stratospheric heights of fame.

This book examines the criminal biography of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, with a focus on separating fact from fiction, and in the process also tells of Leonardo’s creation of the Mona Lisa, discusses why it is so famous, and investigates two other events in its history. First, the so-called “affaire des statuettes,” in which Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire were arrested under suspicion of involvement in the theft of the Mona Lisa. Second, the question as to whether the Nazis stole the Mona Lisa during the Second World War. This book tells the whole story of the world’s most famous painting.

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Noah Charney is an internationally bestselling author of more than a dozen books and a professor of art history specializing in art crime. His novel, The Art Thief, was a bestseller in five countries and is translated into 17 languages. His book Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Charney is now a professor at University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

The complete Mona Lisa story which includes that of the world’s most famous art theft for which Pablo Picasso was arrested as a suspect.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers April 2024 160 pages 21 illustrations Hardback 978 1 5381 8136 2 $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8137 9 $30.50 / £25.00 True Crime • Heists & Robberies

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Muppets in Moscow The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia

By Natasha Lance Rogoff

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing appeared perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children living in the former Soviet Union.

With the Muppets envisioned as ideal ambassadors of Western values, no one anticipated just how challenging and dangerous this would prove to be.

Explores the post-Soviet societal tensions that continue to thwart the Russian people’s efforts to create a better future for their country. With an updated postscript on the war in Ukraine.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 • 302 pages • 26 illustrations Paperback 978 1 5381 8753 1 • $18.95 / £14.99 Previously published in hardback (2022) 978 1 5381 6128 9 • $26.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 5381 6129 6 • $18.00 / £13.99 Audiobook 978 1 5381 7445 6 • $26.95 / £19.99 Biography & Autobiography • Entertainment & Performing Arts

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The Lust for Blood Why We Are Fascinated by Death, Murder, Horror, and Violence

By Jeffrey A. Kottler How do we explain the lurid fascination that most people experience when confronted by real or simulated acts of violence, murder, horror, and crime? This is the subject examined in this candid assessment of our dark vicarious thrills. Based on a series of interviews with perpetrators, victims, and “consumers” of violence, including several celebrities, the author of a best-selling book on serial killers explores what there is about this subject that draws such a wide audience.

Unlike many other books that attempt to probe the murky psyches of deviant individuals, this book focuses on normal, average people who, despite themselves, enjoy getting close to the most forbidden, perverse side of destruction and evil. The persons interviewed range from homicide detectives and emergency room personnel to a heavyweight boxer and groupies of serial killers on death row. The author considers ideas from a variety of theories and research to explain our responses to violence, raises questions about the shifting line be tween normal and abnormal, evaluates the confusion and ambivalence that many people feel when witnessing others’ suffering, and suggests future trends in society’s attitudes toward violence.

Jeffrey A. Kottler, PhD, is the author of over eighty nonfiction books including the New York Times bestseller The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer. He is one of the foremost psychologists in the world writing about issues related to human behavior.

He has written dozens of classic texts and manuals for psychotherapists and teachers. Jeffrey is Professor of Counseling at California State University, Fullerton.

A candid assessment of our dark vicarious thrills.

Prometheus March 2024 312 pages 56 illustrations Paperback 978 1 6338 8948 4 $21.95 / £16.99 Previously published in hardback (2010) 978 1 6161 4228 5 $25.00 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 6161 4276 6 $23.50 / £17.99 Psychology • Social Psychology

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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.

Brookings Institution Press June 2024 320 pages Paperback 978 0 8157 4061 2 $19.95 / £14.99 Previously published in hardback (2019) 978 0 8157 3532 8 $24.99 / £18.99 eBook 978 0 8157 3533 5 $9.99 / £7.99 Computers • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

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Manipulated Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth

By Theresa Payton Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton tells battlefront stories from the global war being conducted through clicks, swipes, internet access, technical backdoors and massive espionage schemes. She investigates the cyberwarriors who are planning tomorrow’s attacks, weaving a fascinating tale of Artificial Intelligent mutations carrying out attacks without human intervention, “deepfake” videos that look real to the naked eye, and chatbots that beget other chatbots.

Finally, Payton offers readers telltale signs that their most fundamental beliefs are being meddled with and actions they can take or demand that corporations and elected officials must take before it is too late.

The updated paperback edition, including new information on real world cases of AI, ChatGPT, TikTok, and all the latest and greatest exploits of manipulation campaigns, will leave readers both captivated and chilled to the bone.

Theresa M. Payton served as the first female Chief Information Officer for the White House during the President George W. Bush administration and is currently CEO and founder of Fortalice Solutions, a boutique cybersecurity and intelligence services company that’s listed in the Global Cybersecurity Top 500. She starred as the Deputy Commander of Intelligence on the CBS TV series Hunted and is a frequent guest on national and international news outlets. Among her many accolades are the FBI Director’s award for community service.

Battlefront stories from the global war in cyberspace.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 208 pages Paperback 978 1 5381 8865 1 • $18.95 / £14.99 eBook 978 1 5381 8866 8 • $18.00 / £13.99 Previously published in hardback (2020) 978 1 5381 3350 7 • $26.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 5381 3351 4 • $28.50 / £19.99 Political Science • Political Process / Campaigns & Elections

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The Making of Paris The Story of How Paris Evolved From a Fishing Village Into the World’s Most Beautiful City

By Russell Kelley Paris has long been the world’s most popular destination and, in the view of many, the world’s most beautiful city – the product of two thousand years of continuous improvement and refinement. The Making of Paris is the story of how Paris evolved from a small fishing village on an island in the middle of the Seine River into the City of Light. The focus of the book is on the city as seen from the street, in order to understand the evolution of the urban landscape of Paris through the rues and boulevards and the buildings and monuments from its long and storied past.

Russell Kelley is an American lawyer who has lived in Paris for nearly 30 years. A dedicated flâneur, he has walked the length and breadth of his adopted city, marveling at its splendid monuments, perspectives and panoramas. Those walks led to an unending quest to understand how the urban landscape of Paris, the world’s most beautiful city, evolved over the centuries. When in the US, he lives in Palm Beach, Florida.

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The story of how Paris has evolved over two thousand years from a fishing village into the world’s most beautiful city.

Lyons Press May 2024 320 pages 123 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7188 3 $22.95 / £17.99 Previously published in hardback (2021) 978 1 4930 4910 3 $29.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 4930 5054 3 $21.50 / £16.99 History • Europe / France

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Top authors 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. Most of her artwork was three-dimensional in nature, but while she could always envision what she wanted to make, she could never get it to turn out quite the way she saw it in her head—until she discovered crochet! With time, she was able to translate her ideas into patterns for others to follow, and Crafty Intentions was born.

Kristi Simpson is the author of many crochet design publications, including the popular 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.

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Complete Crochet Handbook The Only Crochet Reference You’ll Ever Need

By Eveline Hetty-Burkart, Beate Hilbig and Béatrice Simon Complete Crochet Handbook includes step-by-step instructions to the basic stitches for beginners; advanced stitches for lace, cables, textures, and more; and instructions for techniques such as working in the round, adding edgings, understanding symbols and reading charts, and so much more. It is the only reference book a crocheter will ever need. Each stitch and technique is illustrated with photos and complete instructions. FAQs and hundreds of tips make this a treasure trove of crochet knowledge. A complete index makes it easy to find what you need.

Eveline Hetty-Burkart works as a freelance editor and author for magazine and book publishers. Although crochet is her favorite needle-art, her field of work includes a wide variety of handicraft techniques from design to creative implementation to instructions. She is co-author of The New Crochet Stitch Dictionary. She lives with her husband and son near Hamburg.

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Beate Hilbig studied fine arts in Nürtingen and worked as a freelance artist, designer, and author for many years. She has extensive handicraft skills in crocheting, knitting, and embroidery.

Béatrice Simon worked as a translator of handicraft books, and her long-standing passion for everything to do with wool and needles led her to begin designing crochet items. Since 2007 she has been blogging in French and German about her love of crochet as “lilli-croche,” in memory of her dear aunt Lilli, who taught her to crochet.

She resides in Brittany, France.

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This is the definitive guide to all things crochet!

Stackpole Books February 2024 368 pages 1270 illustrations Paperback 978 0 8117 7201 3 $36.95 / £30.00 eBook 978 0 8117 7202 0 $35.00 / £30.00 Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

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Crochet Baby Sets 30 Patterns for Blankets, Booties, Hats, Tops, and More

By Kristi Simpson In this collection for baby, you’ll find patterns for matching sets of baby classics like sweaters, blankets, and booties. Make the sets as shown or mix and match—all items are made with DK weight yarn so it is easy to use your favorite yarns and make any of the pieces to create the ultimate baby layette.

Sizes range from newborn to 12 months, and all patterns are easy to intermediate in skill level. You don’t need to be a crochet expert to make a beautiful gift for baby. If you need a refresher or are new to a crochet technique, stepby-step tutorials are included. There are 30 designs in all.

Get in on the fun of giving crocheted joy to all the new babies in your life!

Kristi Simpson is the author of many crochet design publications, including the popular Supersize Crochet Animals, Sweet & Simple Baby Crochet, Adorable Baby Crochet, and Crochet Stitch Sampler Baby Blankets. By using a mix of stitches creatively, she designs patterns that are accessible for beginners and interesting for more advanced crocheters. Known for her fresh and modern style, Kristi’s patterns have been published in magazines, books, catalogs, and online venues.

Welcome baby with crocheted blankets, sweaters, hats, booties, and more!

Stackpole Books May 2024 128 pages 120 illustrations Paperback 978 0 8117 7260 0 $26.95 / £19.99 Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

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Exploring Tunisian Crochet All the Basics plus the Stitches and Techniques to Take Your Crochet to the Next Level; Patterns for 20 Beautiful Wraps, Scarves, and More

By Lori Harrison A complete course in Tunisian crochet, from beginner to advanced stitches, plus 20 beautiful patterns for accessories. Tunisian crochet is often referred to and thought of as “the blanket stitch,” but the designs in this book showcase the range of stitches and fabrics you can create with Tunisian. No blankets here!

Beautiful, colorful, lacy shawls, scarves, hats and more really bring out the possibilities of Tunisian. Photo tutorials are included for all Tunisian stitches, from beginning to advanced, so this book is for anyone who wants to learn Tunisian or those who are ready to go beyond the basics. Includes instructions for left-handed crocheters as well as right-handed.

Lori Harrison is the Tunisian crochet designer behind Aklori Designs. Designing since 2017, she strives to create enjoyable, inclusive, and easy to follow garment and accessory patterns for all levels of Tunisian crochet enthusiasts. As an engineer in her day job, she designs as a way to nurture her creative side while also relaxing at the end of the day. Influenced by her engineering background, patterns are concise but comprehensive and tailored to the experience level required for the pattern.

Lori lives in Tucson, Arizona with her husband, three cats and a sassy Shiba Inu. Be sure to use #ExploringTC when sharing your projects on social media and tag @akloridesigns. Find even more Tunisian crochet to explore on her website www.akloridesigns.com.

A complete course in Tunisian crochet, from beginner to advanced stitches.

Stackpole Books January 2024 160 pages 385 illustrations Paperback 978 0 8117 7223 5 $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 0 8117 7224 2 $23.50 / £17.99 Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

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My Crocheted Home Baskets, pillows, throws, wall hangings, placemats, and more

By Salena Baca Crocheting items for the home provides a wonderful opportunity to display and enjoy your handmade items every day. Adorn your dining room with a beautiful wall hanging, plants in textured cozies, and the Elm Placemats and Runner. Snuggle into the cozy Arrowwood Throw with your head on a crocheted pillow and your feet propped up on the Wow Ottoman. Crochet baskets and caddies for every room—they can be made to match your decor and are both stylish and functional.

Salena Baca has a knack for creating crochet patterns with interesting texture and design elements while using only the basic crochet stitches. All patterns presented in this book are suitable for a beginner to intermediate crocheter, so grab your hook and yarn and get started.

You’ll love seeing and using your crochet all around your home!

Salena Baca is the author of numerous crochet titles, including Crochet in a Weekend; Quick Crochet for Kitchen & Home; Crochet Market Bags; Learn to Crochet in 10 Easy Lessons; Two Simple Shapes = 26 Crocheted Cardigans, Tops & Sweaters; Build Your Skills: Crochet Tops; My Crocheted Closet; and Crochet in a Day. She resides in Bend, Oregon, happily spreading the joy of crochet far and wide.

Personalize your home with handmade crochet!

Stackpole Books May 2024 32 pages 37 illustrations Paperback 978 0 8117 7288 4 $12.95 / £9.99 eBook 978 0 8117 7289 1 $12.00 / £8.99 Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

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Oversize Fashion Crochet 6 Cozy Cardigans, Pullovers & Wraps Designed with Maximum Style and Ease

By Salena Baca You’ll be ready to cozy up in no time with these 6 crochet designs made with bulky yarn and big hooks. Designs include pullovers, cardigans, ponchos, and wraps in easyto-wear, popular oversized fit.

Salena Baca is the author of numerous crochet titles, including Crochet in a Weekend; Quick Crochet for Kitchen & Home; Crochet Market Bags; Learn to Crochet in 10 Easy Lessons; Two Simple Shapes = 26 Crocheted Cardigans, Tops & Sweaters; Build Your Skills: Crochet Tops; My Crocheted Closet; and Crochet in a Day. She resides in Bend, Oregon, happily spreading the joy of crochet far and wide.

Get ready for cool weather, fast!

Stackpole Books January 2024 32 pages 30 illustrations Paperback 978 0 8117 7047 7 $12.95 / £9.99 eBook 978 0 8117 7048 4 $12.00 / £8.99 Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

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A Year of Crochet Stitches

A Year of Knitting Stitches

A Stitch-a-Day Perpetual Calendar

A Stitch-a-Day Perpetual Calendar

By Jill Wright

By Tabetha Hedrick Inspiration at your fingertips whenever you need it.

The perfect gift for yourself or a friend (or two) who loves to crochet or knit, these standing desk flip calendars showcases a new stitch pattern for every day of the year. Each date features a new pattern swatch with complete instructionsThe handy size fits easily in a project bag, making it a favorite stitch dictionary for on-the-go crafting.

Use these perpetual calendars year after year.

Jill Wright is a digital copywriting specialist and crochet and knitwear designer raising her family in the foothills of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

Tabetha Hedrick is a knitwear designer and writer living with her family just outside the Great Smoky Mountains in Eastern Tennessee.

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Spiral-bound desk calendar 978 0 8117 7186 3 • $25.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 0 8117 7187 0 • $24.50 / £18.99

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Essential Knit Sweaters Patterns for Every Sweater You Ever Wanted to Wear Every Day

By Frauke Ludwig Comfy pullover? Office cardigan? Weekend hoodie? Fitted turtleneck? Think of those sweaters you wear most often, the favorites you reach for time and again because they look great and are also comfortable. Now imagine them hand knitted in soft, beautiful yarns in the colors of your choice.

With the 20 patterns in Essential Knit Sweaters you can create the sweater collection of your dreams! Each of the designs is a classic, essential type of sweater everyone should own—jacket cardigan, turtleneck, oversize tunic, slouchy cardigan, hoodie, raglan pullover—and all knit in easy stitches but with added details to make them unique. Knitting tutorials and detailed instructions make the sweater designs accessible for beginner to advanced knitters. Sweaters are shown in neutral tones for a modern look, and to allow a canvas on which to envision your own favorite hues. Grab your needles and some gorgeous yarn and start filling your wardrobe with sweaters you’ll reach for again and again!

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Knit sweaters to LIVE in!

Frauke Ludwig loves to design timeless, classic sweaters that are also sweet and have that certain something. She is on Instagram @frauluknits.

Stackpole Books May 2024 192 pages 170 illustrations Paperback 978 0 8117 7276 1 $29.95 / £25.00 Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Knitting

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InstaKnits for Baby

By Melissa Leapman A collection of 30 quick-to-knit projects for babies newborn to 24 months, each expertly designed and fast and fun to make. Included are hats, socks and booties, sweaters, blankets, and more adorable items for baby.

Chapters are divided according to the approximate time to knit, for example “under five hours,” “five to ten hours,” etc.

With more than 1,000 knit and crochet designs in print, Melissa Leapman is one of the most widely published American designers at work today. She is the author of several bestselling knit and crochet books, and her designs have been featured in numerous magazines. She has taught at major events such as STITCHES and Vogue Knitting LIVE, as well as at hundreds of yarn shops and local guild events across the country. She is a frequent guest on the PBS television series Knit and Crochet Now. Her fans look forward to getting together on her popular annual Nautical Knitting Cruise.

Your go-to resource for all those last-minute baby gift ideas!

Stackpole Books February 2024 144 pages 120 illustrations Paperback 978 0 8117 7174 0 $26.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 0 8117 7175 7 $25.50 / £19.99 Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Knitting

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Rags to Rugs 30 New Weaving Designs for Repurposed Fabrics

By Tom Knisely Tom Knisely is back with 30 brand-new designs for his favorite type of weaving project: rag rugs!

Weaving with strips of cloth creates a sturdy, hardwearing piece that can be enjoyed on your floor every day for years to come. When made with repurposed cloth from items you otherwise have no use for, these rugs are also an excellent way to keep fabrics from ending up in a landfill (or even just taking up space in a closet).

In Rags to Rugs, Tom explores the weaving possibilities of a variety of fabrics, from T-shirts and jeans to quilts, linens, towels, and more. He shows you the techniques he uses to get the most from each piece, and gives advice on how best to set up your loom for weaving with rags much thicker than your typical weaving thread.

Tom Knisely teaches at the Red Stone Glen Fiber Arts Center in York Haven, Pennsylvania. He has taught weaving for more than 30 years—everything from beginners’ classes to complex multi-harness weaving— and was named Teacher of the Year by Handwoven magazine. He is the author of the popular Weaving Rag Rugs, Huck Lace Weaving with Color and Weave Effects, Handwoven Table Linens, and Handwoven Baby Blankets.

30 brand-new rug designs for pieces made from a variety of fabrics.

Stackpole Books January 2024 132 pages 290 illustrations Paperback 978 0 8117 7057 6 $29.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 0 8117 7058 3 $28.50 / £19.99 Crafts & Hobbies • Weaving & Spinning

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Vegan Candles 21 Soy and Plant-based Candles for Beginners

By Delphine Reposeur Making your own candles allows you to choose ingredients that are healthy for you and for the planet.

It also gives you the opportunity to play with a wealth of fragrances to create candles that are meaningful and purposeful for creating atmospheres of relaxation, warmth, concentration, energy . . . the possibilities are endless! Nearly any glass container can be made into a candle, so use your creativity and resourcefulness to combine containers, scents, and inclusions such as flower petals or coffee beans to make your own unique candles.

The candle-making process is simple. Even if it’s your first time, you’ll find success by following the instructions in this book. You’ll learn:the materials and tools needed to begin, and how to choose the best natural ingredientsthe steps necessary to make both container and molded candles21 recipes with the exact scents to combine to make candles for a variety of moods

Create your own 100% natural vegan candles!

Delphine Reposeur began making her own candles when she searched in vain to find vegan candles for her own use. She purchased soy wax and began experimenting with different scents and styles. Her candle creations drew the admiration of her friends, and a business was born, La Bougie Herbivore (@labougieherbivore).

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Stackpole Books June 2024 80 pages 50 illustrations Paperback 978 0 8117 7280 8 $17.95 / £13.99 Crafts & Hobbies • Candle Making

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Simple Book Repair Techniques

By Donia Conn

Donia Conn is an assistant professor of practice at Simmons University School of Library and Information Science and private conservator with over 20 years of experience. She has extensive training and assessment experience for a wide range of cultural heritage institutions. She has been adjunct faculty at Book Arts Center at Wells College in Aurora, NY and School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College in Boston, MA, as well as developing curricula and teaching for Heritage Preservation, the state of Connecticut, the State of Massachusetts, and for the American Library Association. Donia has also done preservation and workflow assessments for large academic institutions and small volunteer-run historical societies and everything in between.

Donia earned her BA in Mathematics from St. Olaf College and her MLIS with Advanced Certificate in Conservation from the University of Texas-Austin. Past employers include the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Northwestern University, Syracuse University, The Folger Shakespeare Library, and the University of Kentucky.

Donia is also a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and member of AIC’s National Heritage Responders.

As an independent consultant, Donia has worked for such institutions as the Saratoga County Historical Society, Lake Placid Olympic Museum, Skidmore College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the Greater Hudson Heritage Network, and numerous public libraries across the state of Massachusetts.

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A step-by-step guide to simple and more complex repairs for hardback and paperbacks.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 170 pages Hardback 978 1 5381 6743 4 $125.00 / £96.00 Paperback 978 1 5381 6744 1 $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6745 8 $42.50 / £33.00 Language Arts & Disciplines • Library & Information Science / General

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This book walks library staff through how to take care of their collections from the simplest repairs through to more complex ones to treat not only their hard-cover adult collections but their paperbacks and children’s books as well.

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Preggatinis™ Mixology for the Mom-to-Be

By Natalie Bovis, photographs by Claire Barrett

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Globe Pequot April 2024 160 pages 78 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7262 0 $22.95 / £17.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7263 7 $21.50 / £16.99 Cooking • Beverages / Non-Alcoholic

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As creator and editor of TheLiquidMuse.com, (website, blog, cocktail consultation, classes and an online show) Natalie brings two passions together by writing about cocktails and spirits from around the world.

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Authoritative guides for amateur and professional brewers Brewers Publications is the leading publisher of contemporary and relevant brewing literature for today’s craft brewers, homebrewers, and beer enthusiasts. Brewers Publications started in 1986 and supports the mission of the Brewers Association by publishing books of enduring value for amateur and professional brewers as well as titles that promote understanding and appreciation of American craft beer.

For more information on Brewers Publications and to view the imprint’s full range of publishing, please visit brewerspublications.com.

Backlist highlights

Top author John Palmer is the best-selling author of How to Brew, and the co-author of Brewing Classic Styles. He is also the co-host the popular brewing podcast, Brew Strong. John is a metallurgical engineer by trade, and is intrigued by the processes of brewing from an engineer’s point of view, including malting, mashing, water chemistry, lautering, clarity, color, and foam retention. John was born in Midland, Michigan, and currently resides in California.

Stan Hieronymus is a professional journalist and amateur brewer who has made beer his beat since 1993. His travels have taken him to breweries in every state in the country.

The editor at RealBeer.com, he’s penned hundreds of articles for periodicals and publications and has coauthored four books with his wife, Daria Labinsky: Brewing Local (2016), For the Love of Hops (2012), Brewing with Wheat (2010) and Brew like a Monk (2005) for Brewers Publications and contributed to several other publications, including 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die.

Brewers Publications books are distributed outside North America by Rowman & Littlefield International Sales, Marketing & Rights and Ingram Publisher Services UK as part of the National Book Network’s TradeSelect programme.

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Modern Lager Beer Techniques, Processes, and Recipes

By Jack Hendler and Joe Connolly Modern Lager Beer is an exploration of the world of lager beers, their historical origins, and the detailed development and techniques used in their production today. Explore the Bavarian and Bohemian origins followed by an examination of the many significant ways that the modern perception of lager styles has been shaped by myriad techniques used to produce them.

Many of the traditional methods once employed in the production of lager beer can be used today by the savvy brewer to create unique and delicious lager beers.

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This book is filled with practical methods, processes, culture, and recipes from some of the world’s greatest lager craft breweries. From the smallest details of decoction programs to philosophies of fermentation tank geometry, as much as possible of the minutiae of the world’s most popular beer category is explored.

Everything the home brewer needs to create a unique and delicious lager.

Jack Hendler is founder and co-owner of Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers located in Framingham, MA. The brewery is one of the largest in Massachusetts and remains family owned and operated. Inspired by Jack’s education and travel in Germany, Jack’s Abby brews only lagers. Jack lives in Framingham, MA with his wife and children.

Joe Connolly is the Sales Director for Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers. Since joining the beverage industry in 2007, he has developed a passion for beer education and its importance for the brewing industry. Between pints of lager, you can find him exploring wild places with his wife, son and dog. Joe resides in the Boston area.

Brewers Publications June 2024 300 pages 40 illustrations Paperback 978 1 9384 6982 4 $24.99 / £18.99 Cooking • Beverages / Alcoholic / Beer

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Life on the Run One Family’s Search for Peace in War-Torn Ukraine

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A gripping account of one family’s war experience.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers May 2024 260 pages 13 illustrations Hardback 978 1 5381 8573 5 $26.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 5381 8575 9 $25.50 / £19.99 Biography & Autobiography • Military

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The Rooster Discovering my Father’s Memories from the Jasenovac Concentration Camp

By Sibel Roller-Walach This is the story of a father, as seen through the prism of a daughter’s memories of him. The personal story is offset against a greater political context and the destructive impact of nationalism on individuals and their families. It is a tale of survival, resilience and humanity.

The book covers the time that the father, Dragan, spent in a concentration camp in the former Yugoslavia. The camp and the atrocities perpetrated there are still highly contentious issues in contemporary Croatia, Serbia and especially in Bosnia and Hercegovina. The absence of reconciliation over the events in the camp was one of the contributing factors in the disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the subsequent Balkan wars and the continued instability of the region today.

The memoir contains the manuscript left by Dragan, in conversation with his daughter Sibel, the author. It is indeed, a deeply personal learning experience about a part of her father that she never knew.

Sibel Roller is a writer of twentieth century non-fiction and fiction, focused on hitherto unheard voices and unusual perspectives.

She grew up in eight countries across four continents but now resides in London. Her early career was in science research and teaching. She is Professor Emerita at London South Bank University.

A painful journey into the realities of the terrifying secrets a father kept from his family during his lifetime.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers May 2024 Hardback 978 1 5381 8691 6 $35.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8693 0 $33.00 / £25.00 Biography & Autobiography • Personal Memoirs

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Eclectic publishing on America’s favourite pastimes and history Launched nearly four decades ago as a publishing company dedicated to what founder Nick Lyons described as a lifestyle of “responsible outdoor sport,” Lyons Press has evolved into a leading publisher of high-quality books on fishing and hunting, nature, animals, military history, American history and sports.

For more information on Lyons Press and to view the imprint’s full range of publishing, please visit www.lyonspress.com.

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Top authors James Greene, Jr., has previously authored This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete Story of The Misfits and Brave Punk World: The International Rock Underground from Alerta Roja to Z-Off. As a freelance writer, he has contributed to such publications as Crawdaddy!, Orlando Weekly, and Hard Noise. He lives in Texas, somewhere between Bee Cave and Rainbow.

William Reeder is a retired U.S. Army colonel, highly decorated with extensive combat experience. In Vietnam, he was an AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter pilot. Later in his career, he flew the AH-64 Apache advanced attack helicopter. He is also a former prisoner of war (POW) in Vietnam. In 2014, he was inducted into the U.S. Army Aviation Hall of Fame. Reeder holds a Ph.D. in history and does training and leadership development consulting with NATO Special Operations forces. He is a frequent speaker for veterans and other military and civic organizations. He lives in Seabeck, WA.

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The Education of a Statesman

The Sum of It All

How Global Leaders Can Repair a Fractured World

By Lewis E. Lehrman

By John T. Shaw

Recounts a purposeful life of accomplishments.

An insider’s perspective on diplomacy and international politics.

John T. Shaw is a historian, long-time Washington, D.C. journalist, and currently the director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute in Illinois.

Lewis E. Lehrman has written and lectured widely on American history and economics and has written for publications such as Harper’s, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. With Richard Gilder, Mr. Lehrman built the Gilder Lehrman Collection of original historical manuscripts and documents to teach American history from primary sources, now on deposit for public access at the New-York Historical Society. He was presented the National Humanities Medal at the White House in 2005 for his work in American history and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Lincoln Forum. Filled with interviews, remembrances, quotes, and photographs of the many influential personalities, partners, and associates Lewis E. Lehrman has worked with throughout his life.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 • 176 pages

Lyons Press February 2024 • 520 pages • 177 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 7483 8 • $29.00 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 5381 7484 5 • $27.50 / £19.99

Hardback 978 1 4930 7650 5 • $34.95 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 4930 7651 2 • $33.00 / £25.00

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Biography & Autobiography • Personal Memoirs

The international system is jolted by a raging pandemic, climate change, income inequality, cyber threats, terrorism, authoritarian regimes, nationalist demagogues, and frightened and impatient publics.

But the career and hard-earned wisdom of famed diplomat Jan Eliasson offers warnings, guidance, and hope, helping us understand the complexities of this perilous time in global affairs and suggests what can be done to renew the international order and calm the raging discontent that has infected international and domestic politics.

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Scribners

Becoming Kerouac

Five Generations in Publishing

A Writer in His Time

By Charles Scribner III

By Paul Maher Jr.

The inside story of the legendary publishing house that gave rise to many of the greatest authors of the last 150 years.

A fresh new perspective on the literary genius of Jack Kerouac.

The story of Scribners spans 150 years, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York, through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the famous landmark bookstore, down to the present-day. Charles Scribner III invites us “between the covers” of illustrious and notorious books, and provides insight into the family members, editors, and authors of this colorful literary history.

Jack Kerouac was one of America’s greatest writers, yet he endured a life characterized by hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer’s embattled insight of self as central to his life and work. He reveals how Kerouac’s troubled interactions with alcohol, drugs, and spirituality shaped his autobiographical prose and poetry and created a singular language that united thoughts on the human condition.

Charles Scribner III joined his father at the family publishing house Charles Scribner’s Sons, where he remained through three changes in ownership, overseeing the publication of its literary classics.

Paul Maher Jr. is a freelance writer and editor. He is author/editor of several books including: Kerouac: His Life and Work; Tom Waits On Tom Waits: Interviews & Encounters with Tom Waits; Miles On Miles: Interviews & Encounters with Miles Davis. He lives in Lubec, Maine with his wife, Caitlin.

Lyons Press January 2024 • 224 pages • 17 illustrations

Lyons Press January 2024 • 312 pages

Hardback 978 1 4930 7997 1 • $27.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7998 8 • $26.50 / £19.99

Hardback 978 1 5897 9687 4 • $34.95 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5897 9688 1 • $33.00 / £25.00

Biography & Autobiography • Literary Figures

Biography & Autobiography • Literary Figures

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The Art Dealer’s Apprentice

Love Is Greater than AIDS

Behind the Scenes of the New York Art World

A Memoir of Survival, Healing, and Hope

By David Guenther

By Rev. A. Stephen Pieters

New York art business from the inside.

A remarkable story of healing and hope.

In The Art Dealer’s Apprentice, David Guenther recounts his experiences in the New York art world of the late 1980s and 90s. From protégé of Carla Panicali, an Italian countess and major international art world figure, to gallery director, Guenther remembers how he learnt to navigate the treacherous waters of authenticity, power and money in the art business and his own life.

Rev. A. Stephen Pieter’s inspiring story of surviving the AIDS crisis and the notorious Suramin antiviral drug trial, to lead a life of ministry, celebrity, LGBTQ+ and AIDS activism, and hope. His remarkable life is proof that love is indeed greater than AIDS.

David Guenther was a gallery assistant and gallery director at Panicali Fine Art in New York from 19891992. He was also a gallery assistant at The Drawing Center in New York (1984-1985) and a journalist and art critic for The Pittsburgh Press, In Pittsburgh, New Art Examiner, Pittsburgh Magazine and other publications (1988-1989).

Rev. Steve Pieters (1952-2023) was born and raised in Massachusetts. Ordained by the Metropolitan Community Churches, he served as their Field Director of AIDS Ministry during the worst years of the AIDS crisis. He received an honorary Doctor of Ministry degree from Samaritan College in 1989, and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University in 2003. Rev. A. Stephen Pieter is best known for his 1985 interview with Tammy Faye Bakker on Tammy’s House Party.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers March 2024 • 225 pages

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers April 2024 • 256 pages • 12 Illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 8967 2 • $36.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8968 9 • $34.00 / £25.00

Hardback 978 1 5381 8657 2 • $29.00 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 5381 8658 9 • $27.50 / £19.99

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Religion • Christian Living / Inspirational

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Helping technology leaders achieve their goals through publishing, events, and research Beginning with the publication of the bestselling book The Phoenix Project, IT Revolution has continued to elevate the practice of IT organizations through DevOps principles and practices. Our goal is to elevate the state of technology work, quantify the economic and human costs associated with suboptimal IT performance, and improve the lives of IT professionals around the world.

For more information on IT Revolution Press and to view the imprint’s full range of publishing, please visit www.itrevolution.com.

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Top author Jonathan Smart is Co-founder and CEO of Sooner Safer Happier, lead author of the award winning and bestselling Sooner Safer Happier: Patterns and Antipatterns for Business Agility, and Programming Committee member for the DevOps Enterprise Summit.

Helen Beal is a DevOps and Ways of Working coach, Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute, and ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation. She is the Chair of the Value Stream Management Consortium and provides strategic advisory services to DevOps industry leaders. She is also an analyst at Techstrong Research, hosts the Dayto-Day DevOps webinar series for BrightTalk and the Value Stream Evolution series on TechStrong TV. She currently lives in the UK.

IT Revolution Press books are distributed outside North America by Rowman & Littlefield International Sales, Marketing & Rights and Ingram Publisher Services UK as part of the National Book Network’s TradeSelect programme.

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The Phoenix Project A Graphic Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, Volume 1 Adapted by Gene Kim, illlustrated by Mike Collins Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill’s entire department will be outsourced.

Adapted from the acclaimed bestselling book, volume 1 of The Phoenix Project graphic novel introduces readers to a stalwart cast of characters as they are challenged by the four types of work that impact complex workflows.

Gene Kim is a multi–award-winning CTO, researcher, and author. He is the author of six books, which have sold over one million copies. He lives with his wife and children in Portland, Oregon.

Kevin Behr is the founder of the Information Technology Process Institute (ITPI) and the general manager and chief science officer of Praxis Flow LLC. He has 25 years of IT management experience and is a mentor and advisor to CEOs and CIOs. George Spafford is a research director for Gartner. His publications include hundreds of articles and numerous books on IT service improvement.

Mike Collins has illustrated for comic book publishers such as DC and Marvel and has worked on popular characters like Superman, Spiderman, and Dr. Who. As a storyboard artist, he has worked on BAFTA-winning Hana’s Helpline, Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie, and on the television shows Doctor Who, The Witcher, and Sex Education. Mike lives in Cardiff, Wales, in the UK.

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A three-volume series adapted from the novel that sold over half a million copies!

Images of cover and interior artwork coming soon. Scan the QR code to check Edelweiss for updates.

Volume 2 coming in August 2024.

Volume 3 coming in November 2024.

IT Revolution Press June 2024 112 pages Paperback 978 1 9505 0891 4 $26.00 / £19.99 Business & Economics • Management

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Wiring the Winning Organization Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification

By Gene Kim and Steven J. Spear

Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future

A new business dynamic for the digital age.

By John Willis, with Derek Lewis

Drawing on decades of meticulous research of high-performing organizations and cross-population surveys of tens of thousands of employees, awardwinning authors Gene Kim and Dr. Steven J. Spear introduce a groundbreaking new theory of organizational management. Organizations win by using three mechanisms to slowify, simplify, and amplify, which systematically moves problemsolving from high-risk danger zones to low-risk winning zones.

This is not a biography. This is a story of discovery.

Part business history, part biography, part journey into deep business sense, author John Willis captures the full picture of W. Edwards Deming’s life and influence. Most importantly, it reveals the experiences that led to Deming’s greatest discovery: the System of Profound Knowledge, a collection of fundamental truths that show how any system or process can be transformed into something greater.

Gene Kim is a multi–award-winning CTO, researcher, and author. He is the author of six books, which have sold over one million copies. He lives with his wife and children in Portland, Oregon. Steven J. Spear is principal for HVE LLC, the award-winning author of THe High-Velocity Edge, and patent holder for the See to Solve Real Time Alert System.

John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 35 years. He is reseaching DevOps, DevSecOps, IT risk, modern governance, and audit compliance. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks on enterprise systems management.

IT Revolution Press January 2024 • 384 pages

IT Revolution Press March 2024 • 272 pages

Hardback 978 1 9505 0842 6 • $42.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 9427 8887 4 • $16.99 / £12.99

Paperback 978 1 9505 0883 9 • $28.00 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 9505 0884 6 • $12.99 / £9.99

Business & Economics • Organizational Behavior

Biography & Autobiography • Business

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Flow Engineering Using Value Stream Mapping to Achieve Clarity, Value, and Flow

By Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis A world of accelerating change demands a new generation of management with the skills to drive decisive action and elevate performance. Managers tasked with delivering results collide with peers whose conflicting goals, perspectives, and incentives freeze progress and create a glacial pace of change. New thinking and practices are needed to act in alignment.

You can’t copy-and-paste a solution, and you can’t do it alone. To collaborate effectively, you need to create a shared map of the territory; you need to pick your battles; you need Value Stream Clarity.

Readers will discover profound yet practical applications of systems thinking, psychology, and organizational design in this new book by value stream experts Andrew Davis and Steve Pereira. With a step-by-step guide to visualizing the outcomes, processes, and dependencies, Davis and Pereira use case studies from across industries to show readers how to unlock innovation and optimal performance. Learn how to co-create value stream maps of the hidden relations and interactions that constrain your teams, maps that everyone can align with and act on.

Steve Pereira is ‘The Value Stream Guy’ and lifelong workflow optimizer. He’s been improving flow in organizations ever since his first job making pizza.

Beginning in tech support, his quest to experience every aspect of business/tech collaboration and value delivery led him through IT management, build and release engineering, and systems automation.

Andrew Davis is the author of Mastering Salesforce DevOps. He’s a Salesforce architect, developer, and product leader with a focus on the human side of software development.

Reach across the whitespace in your organization and replace friction with flow using Value Stream Clarity.

IT Revolution Press June 2024 272 pages Paperback 978 1 9505 0845 7 $32.00 / £25.00 Business & Economics • Project Management

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Clean Economy Now Stories from the Frontlines of an American Business Revolution

By Bob Keefe, foreword by Arnold Schwarzenegger Combining the instincts of a journalist and the insight of the leader of a national business organization at the forefront of climate policy, Bob Keefe provides the first in-depth look at how the most important climate action in history is reshaping our economy, the way we live, and the future of our planet. He shows how the future long predicted by pundits, policymakers and prognosticators has arrived, and how smart businesses and communities are seizing the opportunities that come with it. Keefe introduces readers to the next generation of clean energy entrepreneurs and innovators, and takes us to places like Kings Mountain, N.C. and Blue Oval City, Tenn., modernday clean economy frontier towns where battery and electric vehicle factories are sprouting from fallow fields and reinvigorating communities previously bypassed by earlier economic shifts.

Bob Keefe is executive director of E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), a national, nonpartisan group of business owners, investors and professionals who leverage economic research and their business perspective to advance policies that are good for the environment and good for the economy. Previously, Keefe spent nearly 25 years as a journalist, reporting for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Cox Newspapers chain, the St. Petersburg Times, and the Austin American-Statesman.

He resides in San Diego, California.

An inspiring look at the Clean Energy Revolution, with a foreword by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 Hardback 978 1 5381 8304 5 $27.00 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 5381 8305 2 $25.00 / £18.99 Business & Economics • Industries / Energy Industries

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The world-leading publisher of new nautical fiction

The beloved McBooks Press list of nautical fiction includes perennial best-selling series such as The Kydd Sea Adventures by Julian Stockwin; The Bolitho novels by Alexander Kent; The Lord Ramage novels by Dudley Pope; and The Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures by Dewey Lambdin.

With the addition of Richard Woodman’s Nathaniel Drinkwater novels from Sheridan House, and Pineapple Press novelist Robert Macomber’s Honor Series of American Navy thrillers, McBooks now offers the most illustrious list of naval fiction available anywhere.

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Backlist highlights

Top authors David Donachie was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an abiding interest in British naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the clandestine services during the Second World War. He has 51 published novels to his credit. David lives in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea, with his partner, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook.

Seth Hunter is the pseudonym of London-based Paul Bryers, the author of six highly acclaimed naval adventures set against the canvas of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. One of his children’s stories, In a Pig’s Ear, was named as one of the Guardian’s six best novels of the year. He has written and directed many historical dramas for British television, radio, and the theatre.

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Portsmouth Point The British Navy in Fiction, 1793–1815

By C. Northcote Parkinson Portsmouth Point—or “Spice Island,” as it was informally called—has always been associated with British naval history. In this classic work, the Point serves as the backdrop for British naval historian and author C. Northcote Parkinson’s chronicle of life in His Majesty’s Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) and the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). The captivating stories, while semi-fictitious, use excerpts from the writings of men who personally served in the British Navy during these periods, and each entry covers a distinct aspect of everyday life aboard England’s “wooden walls,” from the daily lives of Jack Tars and ships’ officers, to the complexities of rigging, to the barbarity of naval warfare. Originally published in 1949, Parkinson’s collection is an illuminating companion perfect for those who enjoy naval history and fiction, including Patrick O’Brian, Alexander Kent, and Parkinson’s own Richard Delancey novels.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson pursued a distinguished academic career on both sides of the Atlantic and first became famous for “Parkinson’s Law”—work expands to fill the time allotted to it. Parkinson wrote many books on British politics and economics. His first fictional effort, a “biography” of Horatio Hornblower, met with considerable acclaim and led to the Richard Delancey series. C. Northcote Parkinson died in 1993.

An anthology of stories chronicling the daily life of a man in the British navy during the Napoleonic wars.

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McBooks Press June 2024 176 pages 31 illustrations Paperback 978 1 5901 3806 9 $19.95 / £14.99 eBook 978 1 5901 3807 6 $5.99 / £4.99 Fiction • Sea Stories

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Our best naval and historical fiction from David Donachie, re-issued in paperback.

David Donachie was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an INTER NATIONAL abiding interest in British naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth AUTHOR centuries, as well as the clandestine services during the Second World War. He has 51 published novels to his credit. David lives in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea, with his partner, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook.

This season, McBooks Press is re-issuing David’s novels from his much-beloved and long-running John Pearce Adventure series, the naval fiction series Markham of the Marines and Contraband Shore, as well as the medieval tale Hawkwood and the ancient historical fiction series Roman Republic and The Last Roman.

The Gods of War

The Sword of Revenge

A Roman Republic Novel

A Roman Republic Novel

By David Donachie

By David Donachie

Three fearless men are drawn into the endless battles of ancient Rome’s fiery war, fighting for power, for victory, for survival—and above all, for honour. Brennos, the barbarian leader of the Celtic tribes, faces bloody personal consequences when his enemies hatch a vicious assassination plot.

Aquila, now fighting for Rome, carries with him his lucky talisman: a golden amulet shaped like an eagle in flight, the only clue to his true identity. And Marcellus, son of Rome’s most powerful senator, must find within himself the ability to lead men into battle—and to win.

Aulus is dead. Hailed as a hero of the republic, his sons, Quintus and Titus, have new and heavy responsibilities placed upon them. Lucius, now the most powerful—and sinister—senator in Rome, is keen to manipulate the Cornelii family to achieve his own goals. Meanwhile the young Aquila lives in Spain with dreams of becoming a powerful solider to fight for Rome and discovering his destiny that is hidden within his eagle amulet.

McBooks Press January 2024 • 472 pages

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Mercenaries

Warriors

Conquest

A Conquest Novel

A Conquest Novel

A Conquest Novel

By David Donachie

By David Donachie

By David Donachie

1033, on the Norman–French border: It is thirty years before William Duke of Normandy sails to England and does battle at Hastings, but the events leading up to that epic moment are already taking shape. The twelve sons of Tancred de Hauteville are following in their father’s footsteps. As knights, they have but one true purpose: to fight. But when they are denied service with their duke, they are forced to take employment as mercenaries, their unequalled battle skills for hire to the highest bidder.

Eleventh-century Italy: The Byzantine Empire rules much of Europe, but in the Italian states to the south it does so in the face of constant revolt from its unwilling subjects – a strife that extends from the great trading ports to the rich agricultural lands of Apulia.

The Lombards, heirs to a northern tribe, are no exception and their leader, Arduin of Fassano, feels the time may have come to rejoin his brethren and rise up in revolt against their Eastern rulers. And so he brings into the conflict the fearsome de Hauteville mercenary brothers to help him in his quest to destroy the power of Constantinople.

In twenty years, the de Hauteville brothers have risen from penniless obscurity to become the most potent warrior family in Christendom: depended on by the Pope, feared by Byzantium, and respected by the Holy Roman Emperor. And now Roger, the youngest son, has finally come to Italy, where he also proves himself to be a great warrior and canny politician. It is he who will raise the family to the pinnacle of influence, not as vassals beholden to a greater power, but rulers in their own right. But the path is not easy; brotherly love only goes so far and nothing has altered in the bubbling stew of Italian politics.

Victory and defeat, betrayal and revenge combine as the desperation to rule becomes an intense battle, testing even the strongest of ties. Through it all shines the loyalty of blood that binds families – and warriors – together. This is the epic story of a true band of brothers.

Will the might of the Byzantine Empire crush Arduin’s revolt?

Can his ambitious plan succeed, or will the treachery that stalks the land play into the hands of the Normans?

McBooks Press April 2024 • 378 pages • 1 illustration

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Son of Blood

Soldier of Crusade

Prince of Legend

A Crusades Novel

A Crusades Novel

A Crusades Novel

By David Donachie

By David Donachie

By David Donachie

Following David Donachie’s earlier Conquest trilogy, the de Hautville warrior dynasty shows no sign of falling back into obscurity.

1096: The Pope has called for a crusade to free Jerusalem, and half the warriors of Europe have responded. Among them is the Norman Count Bohemund, onetime enemy of Byzantium, whose help is required if progress is to be possible. His first task, pushing back the infidel Turks from the holy places of Christendom, calls for an uneasy alliance with old enemy Emperor Alexius.

But can the crusaders trust the wily emperor?With past tensions and grudges arising, Bohemund is faced once again with the opportunity to gain power, land, and riches for himself—but will the risks of doing so outweigh the rewards? The crusaders must contend with sieges, open battles, hunger, and want on their journey to mighty Antioch, where they face the stiffest test of their mettle. As defeat threatens, only Norman discipline can save the day.

The crusading armies go from besieging the citadel of Antioch to themselves being besieged.

Although Bohemund, leader of the Apulian Normans, manages to take a firm grip on the city, the army of crusaders is depleted, thinned by death, disease, and defection.And for Bohemund and his nephew Tancred there is yet another difficulty: the dissent between the Crusade leaders has broken out into the open, with the wealthy Raymond of Toulouse stirring up conflict. If the Christian host is fighting on two fronts, so is Bohemund himself. With the enemy Turks at his front and his warring peers at his back, can he gain the mighty city of Antioch once and for all? Only one of the greatest battles of the age will decide.

Eleventh-century Italy: The domination of the Normans, the most feared warriors in Christendom, is causing trouble. At their head is Robert de Hauteville, who has colonised much of Italy and now commands the triple dukedom of the extended Norman family. But Robert has made many enemies. As he successfully suppresses a Lombard revolt, his firstborn, Bohemund seeks to assert his natural right as the heir of his father’s dukedom. But with Robert’s second son, Borsa, legally entitled to inherit, his quest is not without conflict. A battle between the sons is inevitable, and blood ties will count for nothing.

McBooks Press May 2024 • 352 pages

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World of War A History of American Warfare from Jamestown to the War on Terror

By William Nester World of War is an epic journey through America’s array of wars for diverse reasons with diverse results over the course of its existence. It reveals the crucial effects of brilliant, mediocre, and dismal military and civilian leaders; the dynamic among America’s expanding economic power, changing technologies, and the types and settings of its wars; and the human, financial, and moral costs to the nation, its allies, and its enemies.

Nester explores the violent conflicts of the United States—on land, at sea, and in the air—with meticulous scholarship, thought-provoking analysis, and vivid prose.

William Nester is a professor at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. He has written more than two dozen books on global politics/power and the history of warfare, including books about Europe’s colonial wars in North America, Napoleon, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles De Gaulle, and Winston Churchill. His book George Rogers Clark: “I Glory in War” received a 2013 Distinguished Writing Award from the Army Historical Foundation; bestselling author Douglas Brinkley praised it as “an important contribution to early U.S. history.” He lives in Fresh Meadows, New York.

Explores the violent conflicts of the United States—on land, at sea, and in the air—with meticulous scholarship, thought-provoking analysis, and vivid prose.

Stackpole Books March 2024 448 pages 15 illustrations Hardback 978 0 8117 7378 2 $39.95 / £30.00 eBook 978 0 8117 7379 9 $38.00 / £30.00 History • Military / United States

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American Eagles A History of the United States Air Force Featuring the Collection of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Photographs by Daniel Patterson, text by Ron Dick and Clinton Terry First published in 1997 as the official 50th anniversary history of the U.S. Air Force, this book features the collection of airplanes, art, photographs, and memorabilia of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. With more than 250 color and 150 black-and-white illustrations and photos and insightful text, American Eagles tells the story of the beginnings of flight, through the creation of the U.S. Air Force as a separate branch of the military, to the unbelievable technological achievements of what is the preeminent air power in the world today.

Dan Patterson was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, and received his BA of Fine Arts from Wright State University.

For more than forty years, he has been a self-employed artist, photographer, graphic designer, published author, and private pilot. Aviation history in all its forms is the primary focus of his expertise.

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The updated edition of a magnificently illustrated history of the U.S. Air Force.

Ron Dick served for 38 years in the Royal Air Force and was later British Defence Attache in Washington, D.C. He died in 2008.

Clinton Terry is associate professor of history at Mercer University.

Lyons Press March 2024 336 pages 400 illustrations Hardback 978 1 4930 7295 8 $75.00 / £58.00 History • Military / United States

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Spy for No Country The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World

By Dave Lindorff At 18 years of age, Theodore Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, hired as a junior at Harvard and put to work at Los Alamos in 1944. Assigned the job of testing and refining the complex implosion system for the plutonium bomb, Hall was described as “amazingly brilliant” by his superiors on the project, many of whom were Nobel Prize winners. But what Hall’s colleagues didn’t know was that the teenaged Hall was also the youngest spy taken on by the Soviet Union in search of secrets to the atomic bomb.

Featuring in-depth research from recently declassified FBI documents, first-hand journals, and personal interviews, investigative journalist Dave Lindorff uncovers the gripping story of a brilliant scientist whose information about the plutonium bomb, including detailed drawings and measurements, proved to be integral to the Soviet’s development of nuclear capabilities. Spy for No Country paints a nuanced picture of a young man who was neither a Communist nor a Soviet sympathizer but acted on what he thought was best for the world.

Dave Lindorff is a veteran investigative journalist. He was a two-time Fulbright Professor of Journalism posted in China and Taiwan. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books Marketplace Medicine: Rise of the ForProfit Hospital Chains, Killing Time: Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office. He writes regularly for the Nation and the London Review of Books, among others, and was an on-camera reporter on the Oscar-nominated documentary Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.

Fans of Oppenheimer will be gripped by the story of the teenage American physicist who turned Soviet spy to save the world.

Prometheus February 2024 296 pages 14 illustrations Hardback 978 1 6338 8895 1 $29.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 6338 8896 8 $28.50 / £19.99 History • Military / Intelligence & Espionage

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Knights of Freedom

Carrier Strike

With the Hell on Wheels Armored Division in World War II, A Story in Photos

A Photo History of Aircraft Carriers in World War II

By Lt. Col. Frederick C. Brems (ret.), with Fred G. Brems

By Donald Nijboer

With over 600 photos and firsthand accounts.

Knights of Freedom follows the tanks of the 2nd Armored Division through some of the toughest fighting of World War II in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe. Drafted into the army in 1941, Frederick C. Brems photographed it all. Knight of Freedom is a visual feast depicting American tank combat as it has never been seen before.

Frederick C. Brems served as a tanker throughout World War II and received the Bronze Star and the Silver Star. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in 2014. Fred G. Brems, inspired by his father’s accounts, became a lifelong student of military history. He has worked as an educator, researcher, writer, and photographer both in the U.S. and overseas. Fred and his wife, Susan, live in Durham, North Carolina.

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Traces the shift from the battleship to the aircraft carrier in naval warfare.

In this photo history, Donald Nijboer traces the history of aircraft carriers, from their early development just after World War I, to the Japanese carrier-borne attack on Pearl Harbor, through the great battles of the Pacific War. Special sections cover British carrier operations in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, as well as the limited carrier operations of the German Navy, including the Graf Zeppelin.

Donald Nijboer has written widely about World War II aviation. He is the author of many books and has written articles for Flight Journal and Aviation History. He lives in Owen Sound, Canada.

Stackpole Books March 2024 • 320 pages • 672 illustrations

Stackpole Books February 2024 • 240 pages • 306 illustrations

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Rings of Fire

Dark Nights, Deadly Waters

How an Unlikely Team of Scientists, Ex-Cons, Women, and Native Americans Helped Win World War II

American PT Boats at Guadalcanal

By Larry J. Hughes

Vivid details about the austere conditions aboard and dangerous nocturnal missions, in a gritty and evocative narrative style.

A vivid history of science and war with accessible explanations of the engineering behind the optical ring sight.

Rings of Fire is the story of how Edwin Land, founder of Polaroid, and a unique cast of characters created the calcite-based optical ring sights that helped U.S. naval anti-aircraft guns and army bazookas zero in on targets and claim victory in World War II. It is a story of American ingenuity, determination, and grit in the face of enemy attacks.

Larry J. Hughes is a geophysicist with forty years’ experience, with much of that time spent in the field in the western United States, focusing on mineralogy and optics. He lives near Memphis, Tennessee.

By Keith Warren Lloyd

The US Navy’s Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats were used in every theater of WWII, but they are most famous for their daring exploits in the South Pacific, where they were the US Navy’s first line of defense against the “Tokyo Express,” the nightly attacks of Japanese destroyers against American forces on Guadalcanal.

Dark Nights, Deadly Waters tells the story of the first PT boats deployed to the fetid and malarial island of Tulagi, in the desperate early days of America’s “island hopping” campaign across the Pacific.

Keith Warren Lloyd is an author and historian, a U.S. Navy veteran, and a professional firefighter. He lives in Arizona.

Stackpole Books May 2024 • 400 pages • 80 illustrations

Lyons Press January 2024 • 256 pages • 33 illustrations

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Sitting Ducks at Guadalcanal

Six Air Forces Over the Atlantic

The U.S. Navy’s Disaster at the Battle of Savo Island in World War II

How the Allies Won the Battle of the Atlantic from the Air

By Lawrence A. De Graw

By Col. Joseph T. Molyson, Jr. (retired)

A minute-by-minute retelling of the First Battle of Savo Island.

The story of WWII’s Battle of the Atlantic from the perspective of the air forces—and airmen—who waged it from the skies above the icy waters.

This naval history, features a colorful narrative that covers the big picture as well as stories of individual vessels and sailors as well as a careful analysis of the battle and just what went wrong for the U.S. Navy off the island of Guadalcanal.

Lawrence De Graw served six years in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam era as a translator and interpreter. He spent much of his later career as a technical writer. He lives in Ocala, Florida.

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of World War II, lasting the entirety of the war in Europe from September 1939 to May 1945. It was also one of the war’s most complex campaigns, involving strategy, operations, tactics, logistics, politics, diplomacy, and alliances. American, British, and Canadian forces battled Germans at sea and in the air to protect the flow of first material and then men from the United States to the United Kingdom.

Joseph Molyson blends big-picture attention to strategy and tactics with dramatic episodes of air-toair and air-to-sea combat.

Col. Joseph T. Molyson Jr. (retired) is a thirty-year U.S. Air Force veteran who spent most of his service in intelligence. He lives outside Atlanta, Georgia.

Stackpole Books February 2024 • 464 pages • 159 illustrations

Stackpole Books June 2024 • 320 pages • 112 illustrations

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Project Eagle

Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane

The Top-Secret OSS Operation That Sent Polish Spies behind German Lines in World War II

Nazi Gold and the Murder of an Entire French Town by SS Division Das Reich

By John S. Micgiel

By Vincent dePaul Lupiano

The compelling story of prisoners of war recruited as spies in World War II.

An account of one of the the most horrific events in French history.

Polish Eagles is the story of how American intelligence recruited thirty-two Poles—who had been forcibly conscripted into the German Wehrmacht, were captured in France and Italy, and were pulled from Allied prisoner of war camps— to gather intelligence behind enemy lines up until Germany’s surrender.

On June 8, 1944, a battalion of the 2nd Panzer Division Das Reich surrounded Oradour-sur-Glane, massacred 642 men, women, and children, and razed the village to the ground. This is the shocking story of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of every man, woman, and child in the French town and its real cause: how two SS officers “acquired” one million dollars’ worth of gold ingots and how that led to the massacre.

John S. Micgiel served as director of the Institute on East Central Europe, associate director of the Harriman Institute, and adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University. He is past president of the Kosciuszko Foundation. He received the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. Micgiel now teaches at the University of Warsaw. He lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Vincent dePaul Lupiano spent four years in the United States Air Force. He flew three combat missions over Vietnam carrying a tape recorder and writing and narrating stories of his experiences for hometown radio stations. He lives in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.

Stackpole Books June 2024 • 320 pages • 56 illustrations

Lyons Press April 2024 • 256 pages • 8 illustrations

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The Caretakers War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II

By Caitlin Galante DeAngelis When the First World War ended, hundreds of British veterans stayed in France to look after the graves of their fallen countrymen as part of the newly chartered Imperial War Graves Commission. As the Second World War swept over Europe, the gardeners were ordered to remain at their posts in Nazi occupied France. Some managed to escape on their own, many were arrested by the Nazis, and a handful of others managed to stay free and join the French Resistance.

The Caretakers tells the story of three of these unlikely heroes: Ben Leech, a 51-year-old barman from Manchester, joined the Resistance in Beaumont-Hamel; Rosine Witton, the wife of a British gardener, became a key conductor on the famous Comet Line, a civilian network that rescued Allied airmen, before being arrested by the Gestapo and sent to the squalid Ravensbruck concentration camp; Robert Armstrong, an Irish cemetery gardener working in Valenciennes, became a member of the Resistance. With meticulous research in national archives and the archives of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, along with personal interviews of the families of British gardeners and American airmen and never-before-published journals and papers of Resistance members, author Caitlin Galante DeAngelis reveals untold stories of human courage, resistance, and survival.

Caitlin Galante DeAngelis is an internationally renowned expert on cemeteries. She earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University with a dissertation on the political histories of cemeteries in Britain and America. She is an active member of several UK-based historical associations including the Western Front Association and the Great War Group.

The powerful story of the British cemetery gardeners who secretly aided the French Resistance during WW2.

Prometheus March 2024 304 pages 31 illustrations Hardback 978 1 6338 8899 9 $29.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 6338 8900 2 $28.50 / £19.99 History • Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater

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Super Slick

Inside the French Foreign Legion

Life and Death in a Huey in Vietnam

Adventures with the World’s Most Famous Fighting Force

By Tom Feigel, with Larry Weill

By N. J. Valldejuli A gripping first-hand account of helicopter combat in Vietnam.

Less than a year out of high school, Tom Feigel was drafted into the army and assigned to aviation, ultimately to helicopters. Super Slick is the story of his year in Vietnam. Heart-pumping missions into hot landing zones. Adrenaline-fueled flights into enemy-infested jungles. Terrifying nighttime operations where trees posed nearly as much danger as the enemy. This is close as you can get to being inside a Huey—to hearing the radio chatter, feeling the thrum of the rotors, the pounding of the door guns.

A former legionnaire lifts the veil on one of the world’s most mysterious elite fighting units.

The French Foreign Legion has been romanticized in literature, song, and movies as a place for men to prove their mettle or start their lives over. In this colorful book, a blend of firsthand experience and interviews with former legionnaires, N. J. Valldejuli gives an insider’s perspective on what it means—and what it takes—to be a legionnaire.

Tom Feigel received a Purple Heart, the Air Medal, and four Army Commendation Medals for his service in Vietnam. He now lives in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Larry Weill is a retired U.S. Navy Reserve captain. He lives near Rochester, New York.

N. J. Valldejuli was born in England and raised in New York state. Inspired by stories of the unit’s exploits, he joined the French Foreign Legion in 1986, serving until his honorable medical discharge in 1988. A graduate of Kenyon College, Ohio, and Lund University, Sweden, Valldejuli has taught English and history around the world. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Stackpole Books June 2024 • 320 pages

Stackpole Books February 2024 • 336 pages • 14 illustrations

Hardback 978 0 8117 7566 3 • $29.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 0 8117 7296 9 • $28.50 / £19.99

Hardback 978 0 8117 7240 2 • $29.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 0 8117 7241 9 • $28.50 / £19.99

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In the Belly of the Bear

How America Gets the News

An FBI Journey Behind the New Iron Curtain

A History of U.S. Journalism

By Jeffrey Iverson

By Ford Risley and Ashley Walter

For everyone interested in the history of US and Russian relations as well and the history of the FBI.

A fascinating historical perspective for all consumers of news.

Former FBI agent Jeffery Iverson chronicles the collaboration between the FBI and Russian authorities in the decades following the fall of the Soviet Union. Part cultural history, part international thriller, Iverson details successful criminal and terrorism investigations between the FBI and former Soviet authorities before the rise of Putin.

Jeffrey Iverson spent 22 years as a Special Agent of the FBI. The last half of his career was devoted exclusively to events in the former Soviet Union as a street agent working Russian organized crime, supervisor of the Russian organized crime squad in San Francisco, and as Legal Attaché in charge of FBI offices at US embassies in Central Asia and Moscow.

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This concise history of American journalism introduces the news media from the first colonial newspapers to today’s news conglomerates and the rise of the digital media. Ford Risley and Ashley Walter examine historical trends, including advocacy journalism, tabloid journalism, and digital journalism. They discuss significant individuals, from Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Pulitzer to Ida Wells and Nellie Bly, and examine noteworthy news organizations, from the New York Times to Fox News. They also discuss the role of new technologies, developing professional standards, and the impact of corporate business practices.

Ford Risley is professor of communications and head of the Department of Journalism at Penn State University. Ashley Walter is an assistant professor of journalism and media at Saint Louis University.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers April 2024 • 198 pages

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers April 2024 • 200 pages

Hardback 978 1 5381 8913 9 • $40.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8914 6 • $38.00 / £30.00

Hardback 978 1 4422 3526 7 • $35.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 4422 3527 4 • $33.00 / £25.00

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History • Social History

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B AC K B E AT B O O KS I M P R I N T I N T R O D U C T I O N

Books known for their depth, spirit and authority, for passionate music lovers Founded in 1991, Backbeat Books has grown to become the world’s leading imprint dedicated solely to music. Passionate fans and musicians know to look to our brand to find the highest quality titles on their favorite topics. Specifically, our books are known for their depth, spirit, and authority, offering a diverse range of titles—from biographies and memoirs, critical examinations, and histories to authoritative volumes on musical instruments and instruction—covering all areas of popular music and beyond.

For more information on Backbeat Books and to view the imprint’s full range of publishing, please visit www.backbeatbooks.com.

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Top authors Will Romano is the author of seven books, including Close to the Edge: How Yes’s Masterpiece Defined Prog Rock, the critically acclaimed Mountains Come Out of the Sky, and the award finalist Big Boss Man: The Life and Music of Bluesman Jimmy Reed. Romano’s work has appeared in a variety of publications, such as New York Post, NY Daily News, American Way, Guitar Player, Modern Drummer, and others. He spent most of his life in New York and recently moved to Rockford, IL. David Jacks was born in Arkansas in 1955, he was influenced by his mother, a history teacher, and his father, an amateur musician. Both fueled David’s passion for music. After earning a degree in cinema, he moved to Hollywood, where he worked as video editor, audio producer, and music supervisor for clients, including Walt Disney Home Video and Universal Studios Tour.

Eventually, David was hired by Comcast Entertainment as a music supervisor, choosing music for hundreds of television shows and specials.

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I Hate Old Music, Too How Familiarity & Overkill Killed Our Favorite Music

When Dave Thompson’s I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto published in 2008, the book did not so much divide the world of rock reading as leave it in an uproar.

It started arguments, it ended debates, and for the author of over 150 music books, it not only received the strongest reader response of any book he’d written, it also still crops up in author interviews today. lmost fifteen years later, however, much has changed, and the classics have lost some of their bite as well.

In I Hate Old Music, Too, Thompson recasts the story of “classic rock” in the 21st century. Among the targets of his ire are lavish box sets that mostly just duplicate the albums you already own; comebacks and reunions featuring half or even fewer of the band members; the dark side of the “vinyl revival”; the continued cult of The Beatles; and much more.

Dave Thompson is the author of over 150 books, including co-written memoirs with New York Doll Sylvain Sylvain, Motown legends Brian and Eddie Holland, Hawkwind’s Nik Turner, the Yardbirds’ Jim McCarty, Fairport Convention’s Judy Dyble, and more. He is a columnist for Goldmine magazine, and his work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Alternative Press, Mojo, Record Collector, and many other major publications. He has contributed to music documentaries produced by VH-1, A&E, the BBC, and others. Born in the UK, Thompson is now a resident of Delaware.

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A worthy follow-up to Thompson’s uproariously funny and thoughtprovoking 2008 hit.

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Backbeat April 2024 232 pages 38 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7351 1 $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7352 8 $23.50 / £17.99 Biography & Autobiography • Music

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I Saw Them Standing There

Livin’ Just to Find Emotion

Adventures of an Original Fan during Beatlemania and Beyond

Journey and the Story of American Rock

By Debbie Gendler, foreword by Robb Weller

By David Hamilton Golland, foreword by Joel Selvin

The Beatles before, during and after they conquered America.

A long-overdue and definitive account of America’s timeless rock band.

The Beatles’ historic performance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 was viewed by 73 million Americans.

Very few were there in person—and even fewer would actually go on not just to meet the Beatles, but end up building an entire career around the band.

But Debbie did. This is the story of a New Jersey teenager who managed to accomplish what millions only dreamed about.

Since exploding on the scene in the late 70s, Journey has continued to inspire generations of fans with “Don’t Stop Believin’” and other hits. Celebrating the band’s fiftieth anniversary, and incorporating exclusive interview material with band members, David Hamilton Golland unearths the band’s true and complete story—diving into their origins, meteoric rise to superstardom, dissolution, and return.

Debbie Gendler is a 4-time Emmy-nominated Talent and Development Executive and Producer formerly at CBS New York and LA, and ABC, and is responsible for producing over 9,000 episodes of television for 36 broadcast and cable networks. As a first-generation Beatle fan, she has given countless interviews on television, radio and podcasts.

David Hamilton Golland is a historian, professor, and writer with a background in twentieth-century social and cultural history. He is Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University and founder of The Journey Zone, the leading source for all things Journey. He lives in Middletown, New Jersey.

Backbeat April 2024 • 320 pages • 67 illustrations

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 2024 • 312 pages • 1 illustration

Paperback 978 1 4930 7974 2 • $32.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 4930 7975 9 • $31.00 / £25.00

Hardback 978 1 5381 8701 2 • $33.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8702 9 • $31.00 / £25.00

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Rockin’ the Kremlin

Bass Notes

How One American Fought Gangsters, Oligarchs, and Pirates and Brought Pop Music to Russia

Jazz in American Culture: A Personal View

By David Junk, with Fred Bronson

An inside view into the mysterious alchemy that happens when skilled jazz improvisers get together.

The thrilling, never-before-told story of one of the first Americans to live and work in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In this gripping memoir, the first CEO of Universal Music Russia teams up with acclaimed Billboard journalist, Fred Bronson, to tell the story of how he transformed the cultural landscape of postSoviet Russia with Western pop music, all against the backdrop of the fall of communism and rising authoritarianism.

David Junk was the first CEO of Universal Music in Moscow, and for a decade, he promoted international artists in Russia, including such huge names as Elton John, U2, Sting, and Bon Jovi. He also discovered and signed multiple Russian artists to Universal, including t.A.T.u and Alsou. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

By Chuck Israels

Chuck Israels has witnessed over a half-century of change and innovation in American jazz music. In Bass Notes, he offers up both an engaging memoir and a meditation on the history of jazz music and its prospects for the future.

Chuck Israels is a composer, arranger, and bassist who has worked with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, J. J. Johnson, John Coltrane, Gerry Mulligan, Nina Simone, the Kronos Quartet, and many others. He is best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio from 1961 through 1966 and his pioneering accomplishments in jazz repertory as director of the National Jazz Ensemble from 1973 to 1981. Chuck lives in Portland, Oregon.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers July 2024

Backbeat February 2024 • 232 pages • 10 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 7875 1 • $35.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7876 8 • $33.00 / £25.00

Hardback 978 1 4930 7484 6 • $37.95 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 4930 7485 3 • $36.50 / £30.00

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Biography & Autobiography • Music

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Long Time Gone

I Want to Take You Higher

The Perfect Harmony and Imperfect Lives of the Everly Brothers

The Life and Times of Sly and the Family Stone, Revised & Updated

By Mark Ribowsky

By Jeff Kaliss

The authoritative companion to an unforgettable collection of songs.

Reissued in anticipation of the forthcoming documentary on the bad by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, winner of the 2021 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for Summer of Soul.

Magnificent as the duo was, they have until now never received a definitive biography. In Long Time Gone, the details, small and great, roll along on the mighty “Mississippi,” in near novel-like fashion, revealing facts drawn from exhaustive research and first-hand interviews that trace the character and influences of these hardy but flawed men who grew from teenagers to old men before our eyes.

Mark Ribowsky has authored over thirty-five acclaimed books about some of the most significant figures in popular culture. His writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, and others. He lives in Boca Raton, Florida.

Sly & the Family Stone left an indelible stamp on rock, funk, pop, and hip hop, and their enigmatic frontman continues to inspire fascination and speculation. This updated edition fills in the gaps since the book’s original 2008 publication, including Sly’s legal action against his former manager, the death of Cynthia Robinson, and the new projects undertaken by family and former collaborators.

Jeff Kaliss has featured and reviewed classical, jazz, rock, and world musics and other entertainment for the San Francisco Chronicle and a host of other regional, national, international, and web-based publications. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.

Backbeat June 2024 • 216 pages

Backbeat June 2024 • 232 pages

Hardback • 978 1 4930 7778 6 • $32.95 / £25.00 eBook • 978 1 4930 7779 3 • $31.50 / £25.00

Paperback • 978 1 4930 8029 8 • $24.95 / £18.99 eBook • 978 1 4930 8030 4 • $23.50 / £17.99

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Music • History & Criticism

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A P P L A U S E B O O KS I M P R I N T I N T R O D U C T I O N

Highly respected accounts on TV, film and theatre history Now in its fourth decade, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books is America’s foremost publisher of theatre, cinema, and TV books. Our books range from biographies of film and theatre luminaries to playscripts, librettos, monologue books and explorations of film, TV and theatre history. Applause is an imprint of Globe Pequot.

For more information on Applause Theatre & Cinema Books and to view the imprint’s full range of publishing, please visit www.applausebooks.com.

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Top authors Stephen Jones is a former television and EPK producer/ director and genre movie publicist and consultant. He has had more than 160 books published as an editor and writer and has won four World Fantasy Awards, three International Horror Guild Awards, twenty-one British Fantasy Awards, five Bram Stoker Awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association.

Stephen lives in London, England.

Robert Sellers was born in Leeds in 1965. Following graduation from drama school, he aspired to a career on stage and screen. Alas, despite a few walk-on roles, the world has been spared his acting, which is perhaps for the best. Instead, he turned to film journalism and has written numerous books on film, TV, and popular culture, including the best-selling book Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole, and Oliver Reed.

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Letters from an Actor Anniversary Edition

By William Redfield, foreword by Sam Mendes, afterword by Adam Redfield The legendary 1964 Broadway run of Hamlet directed by John Gielgud is one of the most famous productions of Shakespeare’s most important play. Audacious for its time in concept and execution, it placed the actors in everyday clothes within an unassuming “rehearsal” set, with the Ghost of Hamlet’s father projected as a shadow against the rear wall and voiced by the director himself. It was also a runaway critical and financial success, breaking the then-record for most performances of a Broadway show. This was in no small part due to the starring role played by Richard Burton, whose romance with Elizabeth Taylor was the object of widespread fascination.

Present throughout, and ever attentive to the backstage drama and towering egos on display, was the actor William Redfield, who played Guildenstern. During the three months of the play’s preparation, from rehearsals through out-of-town tryouts to the gala opening night on Broadway, Redfield wrote a series of letters describing the daily happenings and his impressions of them. In 1967, they were collected into Letters from an Actor, a brilliant and unusual book that has since become a classic behind-the-scenes account that remains an indispensable contribution to theatrical history and lore.

Bringing back a classic behindthe-scene book with a foreword by Sam Mendes and and afterword by the author’s son.

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This new edition at last brings Redfield’s classic back into print, as The Motive and the Cue—the Sam Mendes-directed play about the Gielgud production that is based in part on the book—continues its successful run on London’s West End.

May 2024 280 pages

William Redfield was a founding member of the Actors Studio who enjoyed an active career on stage and screen, including memorable roles in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and The Odd Couple. He died in 1976.

eBook 978 1 4930 8461 6 $23.50 / £17.99

Paperback 978 1 4930 8460 9 $24.95 / £18.99

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The Playwright’s Toolkit

Theatre Kids

By Justin Maxwell

By John DeVore

Helpful exercises from leading playwrights for the novice and the experienced.

A hilarious, unforgettable account of life, art, and theatre on the margins.

The Playwright’s Toolkit is a stimulating and wide-ranging resource for both beginning and experienced dramatists. It brings together over 60 invigorating, provocative, and irreverent exercises contributed by leading English-language playwrights, covering all stages of the writing process. It offers an accessible roadmap for those who have never written a play and provides new angles and solutions for seasoned writers struggling with a particular challenge. Covered is everything from generating ideas and world-building, through dialogue and plotting, to revision and the last steps before releasing a play into the world, making this an endlessly useful guide to building better plays.

In 2004, in a small theater in Brooklyn, a coterie of desperate and dedicated theater artists staged an experimental, four-hour adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying. Its centerpiece was an enormous wooden coffin that dominated the space, leaving room for fewer audience members than actors. It ran for only eight performances, fewer than one hundred people saw it, and it changed John DeVore’s life. Out of these inauspicious circumstances, Theatre Kids weaves a hilarious and unforgettable account of outsize ambition, artistic ingenuity, dashed hopes, and the magic of theatre in fin-de-siecle New York City.

Justin Maxwell has had his plays produced throughout North America. He is an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Workshop, the MFA program at the University of New Orleans.

Backbeat June 2024 • 216 pages

John DeVore is a two-time James Beard Awardwinning writer. He has written for Esquire, Conan O’Brien, The New York Times, Comedy Central, and others. He lives in Brooklyn.

Applause June 2024 • 215 pages

Paperback • 978 1 4930 7782 3 • $24.95 / £18.99 eBook • 978 1 4930 7783 0 • $23.50 / £17.99

Hardback with dust jacket 978 1 4930 7776 2 • $27.95 / £19.99 eBook • 978 1 4930 7777 9 • $26.50 / £19.99

Performing Arts • Theater / Playwriting

Performing Arts • Theater / History & Criticism

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You Are My Happy Ending

The Life and Times of Betty Boop

Schitt’s Creek and the Legacy of Queer Television

The 100-Year History of an Animated Icon

By Peter Benjaminson

By Emily Garside How Schitt’s Creek became the surprise hit that changed the way we think about LGBTQ relationships.

How did this supposedly light comedy embrace an activist perspective? And how does it use (and subvert) its romantic-comedy genre in order to make that activism even more powerful? Combining a fan’s affection with a scholar’s insight, Garside explains how this “little show that could” is the product of a long history of queer activism, breaking down barriers and marking a turning point in future representation of LGBTQ stories.

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As a journalist and academic, Emily Garside has a wide range of experience in cultural analysis and has worked for the British National Theatre as a consultant on their 2017 production of Angels in America.

The first biography of this major American cultural symbol.

This book describes Betty Boop’s creation and incredibly active romantic and family life as revealed in her numerous comic strips, comic books, cartoons, and movies since 1930. Peter Benjaminson illuminates social trends that have kept Betty popular for nearly a century.

Before beginning his book-writing career, Peter Benjaminson worked as a reporter for twelve years for The Los Angeles Times, The Detroit Free Press, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Later, he wrote for Rolling Stone, Detroit Magazine, Detroit Discovery Magazine, Atlanta Magazine, among others. As a freelance author, Peter has written books on a wide range of topics.

Applause March 2024 • 280 pages • 31 illustrations

Applause January 2024 • 240 pages • 56 illustrations

Paperback 978 1 4930 6797 8 • $26.00 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 4930 6798 5 • $24.50 / £18.99

Paperback 978 1 4930 6428 1 • $19.95 / £14.99 eBook 978 1 4930 6429 8 • $19.00 / £14.99

Performing Arts • Television / Genres / Comedy

Social Science • Popular Culture

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Hello, Norma Jeane The Marilyn Monroe You Didn’t Know

By Elisa Jordan

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She has been studying Marilyn Monroe since the age of five, after seeing Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on TV, and is currently regarded as a leading authority on Marilyn.

She also gives tours devoted to Marilyn, Jean Harlow, the Doors, and rock ’n’ roll in Hollywood, a role that led her to help cofound the Los Angeles Tour Guides Association.

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Her unforgettable image is seared into the minds of fans everywhere, and her private life continues to inspire headlines and controversy, but Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous—and misunderstood—women in the world who remains a mystery to most people. On Marilyn cuts through the rumors and myths to present the real person behind the queen of movies and pop culture. From her chaotic childhood in Depression-era Los Angeles to her rise in the world of Hollywood and finally her untimely death—On Marilyn explores the legendary star’s family history, connection to the movies from childhood, her personal life as an adult, and her interest in continually educating herself. On Marilyn is compulsively readable—instead of chronological dates and dry accounts of events, there are chapters about specific aspects of her life and career. What did Marilyn like to eat? What types of books did she read? Was she really plus size? Did she nearly bring down a political empire? And how did she actually die? This book explores everything—and vividly brings to light the truth about the world’s greatest movie star.

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This accessible and comprehensive guide reveals the human being behind the legend of cinema’s brightest star.

Applause January 2024 360 pages 117 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 5395 7 $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 4930 5396 4 $23.50 / £17.99 Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

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Marlon Brando Hollywood Rebel

By Burt Kearns Over the last eighty years, Marlon Brando has become such an object of fascination, buried under so many accreted layers of mythos and half-truth, that it is all but impossible to see the man behind the icon. As we approach the centennial of this undisputed American legend, Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel is a revelatory biography that tells its story the same way the man himself approached a role: from the inside.

Author, journalist, and pop culture authority Burt Kearns digs deep into the unexplored aspects of Brando’s career, interests, and singular personality, revealing how his roles on stage and screen, combined with his wild and restless personal life, helped to transform popular culture and society writ large. His influence was both broad and deep. Brando’s intense approach to acting technique was emulated by his contemporaries as well as generations of actors who followed, from Nicholson and DeNiro to DiCaprio and Gosling.

This book also looks at Brando’s legacy beyond acting in the areas of youth culture, rock ‘n’ roll and punk rock culture, the sexual revolution and political and environmental activism.

Burt Kearns is an author, journalist, and “show business and pop culture savant” (Vanity Fair). Kearns has broken major stories as a television and print journalist. He is best known as an Emmy-winning television and motion picture producer, director, and writer. He has written and produced dozens of non-fiction television series such as Kardashian: The Man Who Saved OJ Simpson, the nonfiction comedy film High There, and documentaries such as Bin Laden’s Escape.

How the greatest actor of the twentieth century helped lead the world into the twentyfirst, startlingly intimate and powerfully told.

Applause June 2024 256 pages 29 illustrations Hardback 978 1 4930 7250 7 $29.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 4930 7251 4 $28.50 / £19.99 Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

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Starring Joan Crawford

By Samuel Garza Bernstein Joan Crawford: the name has an enduring fascination.

Forty-five years after her death, Crawford remains a familiar icon in pop culture and the entertainment world.

Certainly the camp bathos of Mommie Dearest has played a part in her continued relevance. But it is ultimately her work and career themselves that account for her remarkable longevity in the culture. From her first film in 1925, to her rise to stardom in 1928, and on to the hit films she appeared in through the 1960s, she continually molded and remolded herself, crafting an indelible image and ensuring her place in the American pantheon.

Having carved out a revolutionary path through the entertainment industry while relying on men as little as possible—whether her studio bosses or her many husbands—she created a gallery of strong, assertive women who outsmarted men and refused to conform to gender expectations. In movies like Mildred Pierce, The Damned Don’t Cry, Johnny Guitar, and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, among many others, she played to win, becoming a lodestar to LGBT audiences, a model of feminist self-determination for women, and an unforgettable icon for everyone.

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Stonewall Book Award-winning writer Samuel Garza Bernstein is an author, screenwriter, and playwright whose work often reflects the wild intersections of modern life. He was born to an undocumented Mexican mother who passed as white using a fake name and a Jewish father who passionately defended the Palestinians. In his own telling, Garza Bernstein was a gay, Jewish six-year-old, living in his head, and spinning stories. His family was nomadic and he grew up all over the world. He, husband Ronald Shore, and their pack of incorrigible dachshunds split their time between Porto, Portugal and Los Angeles, California.

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A rollicking exploration of the powerful women Joan Crawford vividly brought to life in her films—and the lasting, everevolving impact she has had on popular culture.

Applause June 2024 304 pages 80 illustrations Hardback 978 1 4930 7445 7 $32.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 4930 7446 4 $31.50 / £25.00 Biography & Autobiography • Entertainment

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The Films, the Fantasy, and the Modern Relevance of a Silver Screen Icon

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The Crow The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Classic Film

By Bridget Baiss In the thirty years since its release, The Crow has become the ultimate cult movie, with a dedicated worldwide following, two sequels, and a persistent fascination owing to the tragedy that came to define its legacy, in which star Brandon Lee was killed in a strange on-set accident during the last days of filming.

In this fully revised and updated edition, author Bridget Baiss tells the full story of The Crow, from the initial adaptation of James O’Barr’s graphic novel, through its production and Lee’s death, to its final, triumphant release and enduring appeal. Drawing on unprecedented access to the film’s cast and crew, including new interviews and research conducted since the release of the first edition, this is a fascinating and revealing look at the troubled making of a modern classic.

A fascinating and revealing look at the troubled making of a modern classic.

Over her career, Bridget Baiss has been an entertainment journalist and producer working with media agencies around the globe. She currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area.

Applause April 2024 344 pages 26 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7411 2 $27.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7412 9 $26.50 / £19.99 Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

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James Bond and the Sixties Spy Craze

By Thomas Shubilla Of all the novel cultural confections to appear during the 1960s, one of the more peculiar was the nearly insatiable hunger of audiences for spy stories. Bubbling with sex and violence, and marrying pop-culture cool with a funhouse-mirror vision of Cold War geopolitics, the obsession with spy stories found its most popular and lucrative outlet in the James Bond franchise. But beyond 007, there were a host of competing movies and television programs that ranged from inspired to hopelessly derivative—among them the Flint and Harry Palmer movies, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible, The Avengers, and countless others.

James Bond and the Sixties Spy Craze delves into the cultural trends that produced such a flowering of interest in spy stories, from the Cold War and JFK’s enthusiasm for Ian Fleming’s novels to the unexpected success of the five original Bond movies by Eon Productions, all of them starring Sean Connery. Covered here are the cinematic spin-offs and television take-offs on the genre, as well as the explosion of merchandising in the form of toys, comic books, and model kits. The book also features interviews with some of the key players of the sixties spy trend who are still with us, such as Lana Wood, Caroline Munro, Martine Beswick, Madeline Smith, George Lazenby, and others. Packed with behind-the-scenes anecdotes and illuminating insights, this is a loving tribute to a venerable pop-culture genre.

Thom Shubilla is the author of Primetime 1966-1967: The Full Spectrum of Television’s First All-Color Season. He has written numerous articles and conducted reviews for Screem and writes about classic horror films for Monster Bash Magazine.

A loving tribute that delves into the cultural trends that produced a flowering of interest in spy stories.

Applause June 2024 256 pages 58 illustrations Hardback with dust jacket 978 1 4930 7976 6 $32.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 4930 7977 3 $31.00 / £25.00 Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

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I See Dead People

How ‘High Fidelity’ Found Its Rhythm and Became a Movie Classic

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By Mackenzie Nichols

By Andrew Buss A rollicking oral history of the making of High Fidelity and its influence on pop culture.

The movie High Fidelity is sacred ground for music lovers and cinephiles alike. The story of Rob Gordon and his coterie of vinyl snobs made it cool to let your geek flag fly and embrace your irrational enthusiasm. Buss draws on interviews with actors like John Cusack and Jack Black along with all the key principals behind the scenes, including director Stephen Frears and the movie’s screenwriter, producers, and composer. Taken together, they offer a multi-perspectival picture that captures the legacy of the film, showing how it brilliantly captured a cross-section of ‘90s culture while anticipating the current era of cultural surfeit and content overload.

Andrew Buss is a journalist and author of oral histories on Zoolander, Freaks and Geeks, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe.

A fascinating, kaleidoscopic oral history of how one film unexpectedly changed the course of modern moviemaking.

Well before “the twist” had become M. Night Shyamalan’s cinematic calling card and spoiler alerts were de rigueur for online movie reviews, there was The Sixth Sense. Written and directed by Shyamalan, who had been working on the script since he was 25, the 1999 film was a landmark in onscreen storytelling and the evolution of the horror and supernatural thriller genres. In I See Dead People, entertainment journalist Mackenzie Nichols weaves together interviews with Shyamalan, the movie’s stars, crew members, and others into an oral history of how an iconic movie was made.

Mackenzie Nichols is a staff writer for Variety. She has written oral histories of such films as Gladiator, Wedding Crashers, and Jennifer’s Body.

Applause January 2024 • 248 pages • 20 illustrations

Applause January 2024 • 240 pages • 19 illustrations

Paperback 978 1 4930 7213 2 • $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7214 9 • $23.50 / £17.99

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The 12-Hour Film Expert Everything You Need to Know about Movies

By Noah Charney and James Charney In The 12-Hour Film Expert, Noah Charney and James Charney offer readers all they need to know about how films are made and how to watch them in a more thoughtful way. Through twelve chapters covering a wide array of genres and periods, the authors highlight key films in each area of focus and explore important figures and more recent films to help readers develop their core understanding of films, ranging from comedies to silent films, noirs to romances, and everything in between.

Most importantly though, readers will learn how to truly watch movies. The result is a capsule-sized “course” in film appreciation. The only book readers need to master their grasp of film history, technique, and appreciation, it is perfect for movie lovers of all ages. Grab the popcorn and settle in!

Noah Charney, PhD is the internationally best-selling author of more than a dozen books, translated into fourteen languages, 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, American University of Rome, and University of Ljubljana. He lives in Slovenia.

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

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James Charney, MD is a child and adolescent psychiatrist on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine. Bringing together together his expertise in understanding and treating mental illness and his passion for film, he taught a course on film called “Madness at the Movies” for 15 years as a senior seminar at Yale, the American University and Arcadia University in Rome, and as workshops at University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and in Umbria, near Orvieto, Italy.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 224 pages Hardback 978 1 5381 7342 8 $34.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7343 5 $32.00 / £25.00 Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

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BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRES S P UBLISHER INTRODUCTION

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.

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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.

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.

Brookings Institution Press books are distributed outside North America by Rowman & Littlefield International Sales, Marketing & Rights and Ingram Publisher Services UK as part of the National Book Network’s TradeSelect programme.

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Exploring Hate An Anthology Edited by Joshua A. Geltzer, Dipayan Ghosh and Robert L. McKenzie The threat of real-world violence from hateful extremism is growing and there is an increasing public outcry for governments, tech companies, and others to address the deadly effects of hate-inspired violence. As extremists and hate groups become savvier at mobilizing through social media, calls for stronger, swifter responses are growing more intense. Yet these responses must be based on research and data, rather than fear and intuition. In order to formulate the right responses, there are still many unanswered questions that must be addressed.

What are the actual constellations and contours of hate groups in the United States? What are the dynamics of connection between online activities and real-world violence? And what can been done to provide more support to impacted individuals and communities?

In an attempt to answer these and other vexing questions, the authors have curated a diverse set of essays from scholars, public intellectuals, community leaders, policymakers, religious clerics, tech industry officials, and victims themselves. Taken together, these essays not only explore the different manifestations and consequences of hate today but also offer concrete and actionable solutions.

Joshua Geltzer is the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center as well as an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America. Dipayan Ghosh is Pozen Fellow and codirector of the Platform Accountability Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Robert McKenzie is a Director and Senior Fellow at New America and adjunct professor at Columbia University.

A guide for understanding hate— and the options for addressing it.

Brookings Institution Press February 2024 314 pages Paperback 978 0 8157 3803 9 $27.99 / £19.99 eBook 978 0 8157 3804 6 $26.50 / £19.99 Political Science • Political Ideologies / Radicalism

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P R O M E T H E U S B O O KS I M P R I N T I N T R O D U C T I O N

Provocative, Progressive, and Independent Prometheus Books is committed to testing the boundaries of established thought and providing readers with thoughtful and authoritative books in a wide variety of categories.

Publishing intelligent nonfiction for the thoughtful lay reader, Prometheus Books has focused on several core categories including popular science, critical thinking, philosophy, history, atheism, humanism, current events, psychology, and true crime. The imprint was founded in 1969 by the late philosopher Paul Kurtz.

For more information on Prometheus Books and to view the imprint’s full range of publishing, please visit www.prometheusbooks.com.

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Top authors Michel Bruneau is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineers and of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and Emeritus Director of a National Science Foundation’s national engineering research center.

He has worked for more than three decades as part of multidisciplinary teams advancing the goal of disaster resilience and has received more than 20 prestigious awards, including a lifetime achievement award.

Sarah Makowski is a learning and development professional. She completed her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Aachen. In her private life, she is a dedicated Janeite and a voracious reader.

Her writing has appeared in many places, including Persuasions, the Jane Austen Society of North America’s peerreviewed publication. Born in Michigan, Makowski, she now lives in Germany with her teenage son, husband, and two cats.

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A New Masculinity A Compassionate Guidebook to Men’s Mental Health

By Stephan B. Poulter A looming health crisis faces men who find themselves stuck in today’s changing world. Slowly, more and more men are learning the positives that come from talking openly about their struggles with mental and physical health.

In this incisive and insightful guide to male mental health, popular clinical psychologist Stephan B. Poulter, Ph.D., unpacks the various issues that stem from male shame, including those surrounding anger, sexual orientation, wealth, physical performance and appearance, relationships, and much more. A New Masculinity is a practical guide for men of all ages to embrace their on-going process of developing a balanced, compassionate, and positive masculinity. Through case studies of real-life men from all walks of life this book provides helpful analysis and practical, reader-focused exercises. Above all, A New Masculinity shows that embracing who and what you are is a pivotal part of your masculinity journey. By uncovering the interconnections of physical health, mental health, and personal motivation, this comprehensive guide will give you the tools to become your best self.

Stephan B. Poulter, Ph.D., is a renowned Los Angeles based clinical psychologist in private practice with over thirty years of experience. Dr. Poulter brings a fresh and original perspective as a former law-enforcement office, seminary graduate, psychologist, father, and author to some of the timeless questions of families, parents, fathers, mothers, marriage/divorce, and emotional shame. He is the author of The Shame Factor, The Art of Successful Failure, Your Ex-Factor, The Mother Factor, The Father Factor, and Father Your Son. Dr. Poulter is married, a father of four children and father to four dogs. He resides in Los Angeles, California.

A practical guide for men of all ages to embrace their ongoing process of developing a balanced, compassionate, and positive masculinity.

Prometheus May 2024 272 pages Paperback 978 1 6338 8942 2 $22.95 / £17.99 eBook 978 1 6338 8943 9 $21.50 / £16.99 Psychology • Mental Health

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Mastery How Learning Transforms Our Brains, Minds, and Bodies

By Arturo E. Hernandez To the outsider, an expert seems as if they are doing everything effortlessly. A master chess player, an expert golfer, and a prolific writer seem to be able to quickly home in on what needs to be done and execute flawlessly over and over again. How do we master new skills? How do our brains and bodies transform performance from novice to expert?

In Mastery, Arturo E. Hernandez shows that new skills are not built but rather bloom from the combination and recombination of small parts that come to represent a new whole. The process by which smaller things are blended over and over again is one that is not just restricted to high-level experts. Uniting the latest research findings from a cross section of disciplines with compelling storytelling, Mastery shows readers how the blooming of abilities can work in their favor and lead them to achieve much more than they thought was possible. Whether mastering a new language, learning to play a musical instrument, or sharpening your memory, Hernandez teaches readers how to take advantage of our adaptability and open our minds to their fullest potential.

Arturo E. Hernandez, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology at the University of Houston specializing in the brain bases of bilingualism. He is the winner of the Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany and a Fulbright Global Scholar award, among other awards. He is the author of The Bilingual Brain and has written more than 80 journal articles. As a child, Hernandez was exposed to four languages and became proficient in two of them, English and Spanish. He learned Portuguese as a third language in early adulthood and German in his thirties. He is also an avid tennis player, having competed in tournaments himself and spent time coaching his children.

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A fascinating tour of cognition that reveals the path to surprising potential.

Prometheus June 2024 200 pages 13 illustrations Hardback 978 1 6338 8940 8 $27.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 6338 8941 5 $26.50 / £19.99 Psychology • Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

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The Power of Personality Unlock the Secrets to Understanding Everyone in Your Life—Including Yourself!

Eric Gee Conformity is the new black—there is safety in numbers— so what happens when individuals come into conflict with the “shoe” values they’ve been forced to wear from an early age? They will either submit to the pressure and lose sight of themselves or fight like hell and be socially excommunicated. Too often personality distinctions are disowned and labeled as “weakness”, or we default to accepting surface differences in the name of “diversity”.

If we truly want to coexist with one another, we must learn that even our most sacred values deviate from person to person, and it’s that diversity that makes humanity strong.

The Power of Personality demystifies the sixteen different personality types by teaching the reader how to identify and appreciate their own unique type and that of others. By re-examining previously held assumptions on personality (birth order, cultural stereotypes, extroversion vs. introversion, type-A personalities) and debunking/ clarifying them, the reader will be able to understand a person deeper than that person understands themselves.

Considering the existential threat of our current, fractured sociopolitical climate tearing itself from within, this skill is not a luxury; it’s a necessity.

Eric Gee has performed personality type-based life coaching for over twenty years. He built and operated a successful education company that utilized his personality typing method to better the lives of more than twenty thousand students, parents, and teachers. As creator of the Youtopia Project website and the Youtopia 16 assessment, Eric Gee has disseminated his method to over half a million users since the website’s creation in 2016. He has lectured on personality typing at universities such as UC Riverside and Otis College of Art and Design.

How to identify and appreciate your own unique personality type and that of others.

Prometheus June 2024 240 pages 22 illustrations Hardback 978 1 6338 8956 9 $29.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 6338 8957 6 $28.50 / £19.99 Psychology • Personality

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The Anger Myth

The Fearful Mind

Understanding and Overcoming the Mental Habits that Steal Your Joy

A Psychological Portrait of Our Most Misunderstood Emotion

By Trish Ahjel Roberts

By Alby Elias

Inspires change in the way people approach their own anger in today’s overheated cultural climate.

Argues that fear is a motivating force rather than a despicable emotion.

The Anger Myth is a step-by-step guide to help readers address their anger in all its forms for a happier, healthier, and more productive life.

Whether it manifests as incessant complaining, jealousy, disappointment, impatience, frustration, resentment, or annoyance, anger lies. It brings destruction, stealing time, money, creativity, and joy.

Anger has a profound emotional cost. It prevents people from living the life they really want.

In sharp contrast to the existing literature, this book argues that fear, overriding all other emotions, operates relentlessly in the unconscious mind as a motivating force and renders life compatible with survival. Fear appeals can bring healthy behavioral changes; the stronger the appeal, the more persuasive it is.

Trish Ahjel Roberts, MBA, CLC, RYT-200 is a transformational coach and happiness expert who has created her own unique brand of MindBlowing Happiness™ coaching which incorporates mindfulness techniques, life, and career coaching along with Buddhist and yogic philosophy. She spends her time in Atlanta, Georgia and Tampa, Florida.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers April 2024 • 208 pages Hardback 978 1 5381 8094 5 • $30.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8095 2 • $28.50 / £19.99 Self-Help • Self-Management / Anger Management

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This book expands the concept of eustress, a positive reaction to stress, and describes the beneficial aspects of fear. The book gives a twist to the conventional view of fear as an unwanted emotion and draws a new hypothesis that fear is the primary emotion and a constant psychological operative, a lack of which poses dangerous consequences.

Prometheus January 2024 Hardback 978 1 6338 8936 1 • $29.95 / £25.00 Psychology • Emotions

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The Missing Peace

The Illusion of Control

Rewire Your Brain, Reduce Anxiety, and Recreate Your Life

A Practical Guide to Avoid Futile Struggles

By Wolfgang Linden

By Laura Rhodes-Levin A roadmap out of anxiety and to self-acceptance and happiness.

The Missing Peace equips readers with a new and relatable lens to seeing anxiety for what it is: a liar that predicts doom. They will learn how to re-train themselves from years of personal and inherited anxiety. What once seemed overwhelming and unsurpassable is within reach. They will learn to reframe their insecurities, turn off negative self-talk, navigate life free from fear, and set real and longlasting boundaries with which they are aligned.

Then they will discover how to live their lives like a vacation and find their true purpose.

Describes how people grossly overestimate the power they have over others while simultaneously missing opportunities to enjoy and use the power they have over themselves.

The Illusion of Control makes the case that people waste an inordinate amount of energy trying to control events and people that they have little or no control over. At the same time, they often complicate relationships in attempts at over-control while missing out on enjoying the power they have over themselves. Based on scientific evidence (and lots of real-life experience), The Illusion of Control makes teaches how to reduce stress and improve quality of life by giving up ineffective habits and attempts at controlling the uncontrollable.

Laura Rhodes-Levin, LMFT, is a licensed therapist specializing in treating anxiety, depression, and trauma. She holds a Master of Science in Counseling and is known for her original and successful approach to understanding anxiety.

Wolfgang Linden is a Professor Emeritus in Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers May 2024 • 240 pages

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers March 2024

Hardback 978 1 5381 8163 8 • $36.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8164 5 • $34.00 / £25.00

Hardback 978 1 5381 8364 9 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8365 6 • $30.00 / £25.00

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Psychology • Emotions

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End of the World Civilization and Its Fate

By Jon Mills Are we on the brink of human extinction? Is civilization destined toward self-annihilation?

We must not underestimate the risk of the possibility that we may become extinct fairly soon. We are facing a planetary ecological crisis with runaway greenhouse gas emissions, environmental destruction, extreme climate change, human overpopulation, global catastrophic hazards including the threat of world war, nuclear holocaust, bioterror, pandemic infectious diseases, famine, water scarcity, religious fanaticism, techno nihilism, public health calamities, obscene disparities in wealth and poverty, civil disorder, and the anathema of evil that could bring about the end of the world.

Philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills provides the first book of its kind that examines the ominous existential risks that could bring about the end of civilization. Drawing on the psychological motivations, unconscious conflicts, and cultural complexes that drive human behavior and social relations, he offers fresh new perspectives on the looming fate of humanity based on a collective bystander disorder.

Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist.

He is Honorary Professor, Department of Psychosocial & Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK, and on faculty at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, USA, and at the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, USA. Recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship including five Gradiva Awards, he is the author and/or editor of over 30 books in psychoanalysis, philosophy, psychology, and cultural studies. In 2015 he was given the Otto Weininger Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Canadian Psychological Association.

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Explores the emergencies that could ignite an apocalypse.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 250 pages Hardback 978 1 5381 8900 9 $36.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8901 6 $34.00 / £25.00 Psychology • General

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The Conceivable Future

Banish Bedtime Battles

Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change

The Ultimate Six-Week Plan to Help Your School-Aged Child Sleep Independently

By Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli

By Ellen Flannery-Schroeder and Chelsea Tucker

A guide for family planning in the era of climate consequences.

The Conceivable Future explores how the climate crisis is affecting our personal decisions about family planning, parenting, and political action. Kallman and Ferorelli offer both informed perspective and practical steps for taking meaningful action in combating the climate crisis, while also making smart, balanced decisions about starting a family.

Meghan Kallman was elected to the city council in Pawtucket, before winning a seat in the Rhode Island State Senate in 2020. Meghan is on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts. Josephine Ferorelli is a writer, artist, and yoga instructor. She writes and edits climate coverage for Occupy.com.

In 2014, Meghan and Josephine co-founded the organization Conceivable Future.

Help your child sleep well—and alone—for better health and happiness.

Banish Bedtime Battles presents an easy-to-follow 6-week plan for parents who want their children to sleep in their own beds. Parents identify which of six common behavioral bedtime problems they face and, armed with powerful parenting strategies presented in the book, follow the plan uniquely tailored to their child.

Ellen Flannery-Schroeder, PhD, ABPP, is a licensed psychologist who specializes in anxiety disorders in children and prevention programs for children at risk for anxiety, parent training, and the role of family factors in anxiety disorders. Chelsea Tucker, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with 10 years of experience treating children and families seeking behavior change.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers April 2024 • 328 pages • 4 illustrations

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 • 160 pages

Hardback 978 1 5381 7969 7 • $26.00 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 5381 6226 2 • $30.00 / £25.00

Hardback 978 1 5381 8789 0 • $29.00 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 5381 8790 6 • $27.50 / £19.99

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Feedback Uncovering the Hidden Connections Between Life and the Universe

By Nicholas R. Golledge We live in a world where things come and go, rise and fall, grow and decay, tracing out cycles of change that are ordered and predictable. Earth and the life upon it have evolved over billions of years to be right where we are now only because of feedbacks that pushed those systems until they broke. And then those systems adapted, reorganized, and rebuilt. With each new cycle of growth it was feedbacks that created order from disorder and gave rise to a world perfectly optimized for everything it needed to be.

Now the latest scientific research is revealing that the exact same patterns that describe plate tectonics, evolution, and mass extinctions also emerge in the heartbeat of our everyday lives, underpinning everything from the cohesion of our social networks and personal relationships to our emotional well-being and spiritual beliefs. In Feedback, we embark on a backstage journey revealing how these lesser-known processes keep us operating right where we need to be, poised at the edge of chaos. In a world simultaneously threatened with social and environmental disasters this journey uncovers the hidden connections that unite us not just to those around us but also across vast scales of time and space to the very fabric of the universe.

Nicholas Golledge is an internationally INTER recognized climate scientist based in NATIONAL AUTHOR Wellington, New Zealand. He uses a combination of field, laboratory, and computer-based techniques to answer fundamental questions about how the Earth works. He is frequently interviewed for television, radio, and print media and his work has been covered by publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and National Geographic.

A fascinating journey into the little-known feedback processes that govern our daily lives.

Prometheus January 2024 250 pages Hardback 978 1 6338 8933 0 $28.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 6338 8934 7 $26.50 / £19.99 Science • Philosophy & Social Aspects

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Rescuing Science

Edmond Halley

Restoring Trust In an Age of Doubt

The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal

By Paul M. Sutter

By David K. Love An insider look at science’s elitist and exclusionary politics and practices.

Rescuing Science peels back the layers of academia to reveal how science operates, why it’s so powerful and vital, and yet like any human endeavor, flawed. Sutter reveals a community that has come to disregard the public, is obsessed with money and politics, limits the entrance of minorities, and permits fraud and lies in the pursuit of notoriety.

Paul M. Sutter is a professor in astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Computation Science at Stony Brook University and a guest researcher at the Flatiron Institute in New York City. Paul hosts a variety of science shows and has served as a consultant for major TV shows, such as Star Trek Discovery and Another Life.

A revelatory and deeply researched biography of a man whose defining achievement isn’t even the half of it.

While Edmond Halley is known thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, his contributions to the fields of astronomy, philosophy, history, mathematics, engineering, and actuarial science are mostly overlooked. This incisive and surprising biography reveals the boundless mind and endless curiosity of Edmond Halley and firmly cements the legacy of the second Astronomer Royal among the first-rate scientists of his time.

David K. Love is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society and lectured on the history of astronomy and on the origins and evolution of the universe.

His book Kepler and the Universe publishes in paperback in February 2024. Love lives in Exeter, UK. INTER NATIONAL AUTHOR

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 2024 • 232 pages

Prometheus January 2024 • 192 pages • 33 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 8161 4 • $38.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8162 1 • $36.00 / £30.00

Hardback 978 1 6338 8891 3 • $26.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 6338 8892 0 • $25.50 / £19.99

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Science • Astronomy

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Books that capture the very heart and soul of outdoor pursuits For more than 40 years, Falcon Guides have set the standard for outdoor recreation content. With contributions by top outdoors experts and enthusiasts, we invite readers to experience the endless adventure and beauty of the great outdoors.

With books and content covering the entire spectrum of outdoor activities, ranging from hiking and rock climbing guides to environmental preservation and wildlife identification, our objective is to outfit your mind with the best possible information on where to go, how to get there, and what to see once you arrive. Our online community brings people who love the outdoors together to share experiences and encourage others to get outside.

For more information on Falcon Guides and to view the imprint’s full range of publishing, please visit www.falcon.com.

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Top authors Buck Tilton teaches at Central Wyoming College and has authored more than 1300 magazine articles and more than 40 books, including Knack Knots You Need, Knack Hiking & Backpacking, and Knack First Aid. His many books for FalconGuides, including the award-winning Wilderness First Responder, have sold more than 300,000 copies combined.

Meg Carney is a lifelong nature-lover and full-time outdoor and environmental writer. She is the Senior Editor of the CleanUp News, a news publication that focuses on environmental advocacy and educating consumers on the waste within the supply chain. Meg is well-versed in outdoor activities like backpacking, rock climbing, trail running, and biking. Her combined passion for words and the environment has led her to lead a nomadic lifestyle with a career in writing and environmental advocacy.

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Outdoor Life Lists A List-by-List Guide to Enjoying the Great Outdoors

By Barbara Ann Kipfer Outdoor Life Lists is an informative celebration of the

outdoors. Look inside to find 75 checklists covering the essentials needed and potential extras to consider for enjoying outdoor sports, recreation, and activities. These lists cover the things you need to bring and wear to participate fully and safely in every activity. Also included are informative callout lists that may come in handy in various outdoor situations. To top it off, other callouts offer snippets describing things one may observe during the outdoor activity.

Barbara Ann Kipfer is an archaeologist, lexicographer, former sports writer, hiker, and author. She has written more than 65 books and calendars, mostly lists, including 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, 5,203 Things to Do Instead of Looking at Your Phone, SelfMeditation,Instant Karma, 8,789 Words of Wisdom, and The Wish List, 4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone, Roget’s International Thesaurus, and 1,001 Ways to Live Wild, 1,001 Ways to Slow Down, and 1,001 Ways to be Creative. Find more of Barbara’s work online at www.thingstobehappyabout.com.

The ultimate resource for list lovers to get ready for the great outdoors.

Falcon Guides June 2024 232 pages 400 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7668 0 $22.95 / £17.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7667 3 $21.50 / £16.99 Sports & Recreation • Outdoor Skills

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Climbing Anchors

By John Long and Bob Gaines This completely revised and updated edition with all new color photos brings together in a single volume the anchoring systems most popular among climbers. Most climbers today learn their craft on artificial climbing walls and on sport routes with fixed protection. Their first efforts to lead on trad routes often come as a rude shock—they find that they haven’t the skills and training to safeguard the climb or to set up solid belays. This new edition of Climbing Anchors is the climber’s complete and authoritative source of information on protection, from fundamental knots to sophisticated rigging and equalizing skills.

John Long is an acclaimed American rock climber and author of more than forty titles, including The Trad Climber’s Bible (FalconGuides). He lives in Venice, California.

Bob Gaines is an American Mountain Guides Association Certified Rock Instructor and owner/director of Vertical Adventures Rock Climbing School, based at Joshua Tree National Park, California.

A complete guide to anchoring systems for rock climbers, now fully updated and revised.

Falcon Guides May 2024 256 pages 332 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7455 6 $32.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 4930 7456 3 $31.00 / £25.00 Sports & Recreation • Mountaineering

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Climbing Anchors Field Guide

By John Long and Bob Gaines Designed for quick use by climbers on site, this book shows how to properly place and configure natural anchors, passive chocks, mechanical chocks, fixed gear, knots, belay anchors, toprope anchors and rappel anchors. This field guide is up to date with the essential knowledge every climber can depend on.

John Long is an acclaimed American rock climber and author of more than forty titles, including The Trad Climber’s Bible (FalconGuides). He lives in Venice, California.

Bob Gaines is an American Mountain Guides Association Certified Rock Instructor and owner/director of Vertical Adventures Rock Climbing School, based at Joshua Tree National Park, California.

A take-to-the-crag companion book to our huge-selling Climbing Anchors.

Falcon Guides June 2024 144 pages 241 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7457 0 $19.95 / £14.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7458 7 $19.00 / £14.99 Sports & Recreation • Mountaineering

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The Boston Marathon Handbook An Insider’s Guide

By Marc W. Pollina Every third Monday each April since 1897, the fastest endurance athletes in the world converge on Boston, Massachusetts to run planet Earth’s most prestigious road race, the Boston Marathon. What began with fifteen runners toeing the start on a dirt road is now a global phenomenon, attracting millions of online viewers, more than 500,000 spectators, and 30,000 of the fastest athletes from 120 countries around the world. Books chronicle its storied history. Memoirs highlight its penchant for self-transformation. The Boston Marathon Handbook takes a different tack, delivering everything we need to know – how to prepare, what to wear, how to qualify, where to celebrate, who to emulate, how to race, and everything else critical (and not so critical) – to ensure race-day success.

In a reverent yet tongue-in-cheek style, The Boston Marathon Handbook educates and entertains in equal measure. Marc W. Pollina presents us with the definitive field guide to the Boston Marathon for participants, aspirants on the cusp of participating, and athletes who dream of participating. The book features tips on getting in, training, navigating Boston and the runners’ expo, racing through each town, celebrating after the finish, shaking off the post-race blues, and figuring out what challenge to pursue next in one entertaining package.

The essential guide to Boston Marathon success.

Falcon Guides April 2024 256 pages 264 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7902 5 $22.95 / £17.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7903 2 $21.50 / £16.99 Sports & Recreation • Running & Jogging

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Mind Game An Inside Look at the Mental Health Playbook of Elite Athletes

By Julie Kliegman In Mind Game: An Inside Look at the Mental Health Playbook of Elite Athletes, Julie Kliegman offers insight into how elite athletes navigate mental performance and mental illness—and what non-athletes can learn from them.

She explores the recent mental health movement in sports, the history and practice of sport psychology, the stereotypes and stigmas that lead athletes to keep their troubles to themselves, and the ways in which injury and retirement can throw wrenches in their mental states.

Kliegman also examines the impacts of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders, substance abuse, and more, with a keen eye toward moving forward with acceptance, progress, and problem-solving.

Featuring insightful interviews with Olympians Chloe Kim, McKayla Maroney, and Adam Rippon, NBA players Kevin Love and DeMar DeRozan, former U.S. Open tennis champ Bianca Andreescu, and many other athletes and experts, Mind Game breaks down the ongoing, heartening movement of athletes across sports coming forward to get the care they need and deserve—and to help others feel safe opening up about their struggles, as well.

Julie Kliegman is the copy chief for Sports Illustrated.

Previously, she was copy editor at The Ringer, weekend editor and breaking news contributor at The Week, and a news fellow at BuzzFeed. Her writing on a wide variety of topics has appeared in outlets including Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, The Ringer, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Vox, The Verge, Bustle, Washington Monthly, The Week, and more.

Kliegman is a frequent guest on radio and podcasts and has been interviewed about her work on shows including SportsNet 90 The FAN, Sports Media With Richard Deitsch, New Hampshire Public Radio, BTR Daily Beat, and FM 96.9 The Game. She lives in Queens, New York.

An important look at the mental health challenges faced by athletes and how they navigate them.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers March 2024 232 pages Hardback 978 1 5381 6806 6 $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6807 3 $30.00 / £25.00 Sports & Recreation • Sports Psychology

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The Burden of Sports How and Why Athletes Struggle with Mental Health

By John Weston Parry A comprehensive examination of the mental health challenges that elite athletes face in America’s most popular sports. Athletes that compete at a high level face numerous mental health challenges as they strive for perfection and victory in their sports. And while mental health awareness for athletes is better than it once was, efforts to hide the existence of these mental disorders and challenges remain well-ingrained.

In The Burden of Sports, John Weston Parry examines the mental health of elite American athletes generally, as well as in relation to spectator sports propaganda, the legal system, politics, and the effects of the Covid pandemic.

This book covers mental health conditions that any elite athlete may encounter, from depression and anxiety to substance abuse and concussion-caused brain damage, to the special challenges of female, queer, transgender, and intersex athletes. Featured throughout are narratives of well-known American athletes, including Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka, Michael Sam, and Tiger Woods. Addressing the mental health of athletes and challenging the public perception of such struggles is long overdue.

A long overdue examination of mental health in sports, and why so many athletes struggle with it.

John Western Parry is a lawyer, writer, and former

substantive legal editor. He has been the host for the website and blog, Sportpathogies.com since 2016. He also is the author of The Athlete’s Dilemma: Sacrificing Health for Wealth and Fame (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and Mental Disability, Violence, Future Dangerousness: Myths Behind the Presumption of Guilt (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013). He is a past recipient of the Manfred Guttmacher Award from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 2024 296 pages Hardback 978 1 5381 7553 8 $38.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7554 5 $36.00 / £30.00 Sports & Recreation • Health & Safety

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The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery Rest, Relax, and Restore for Peak Performance

By Sage Rountree Recovery—physical and mental—is a red-hot topic, and the worlds of sports, technology, and commerce have all taken note. But which practices and devices really make a difference in recovery, and which should be avoided?

What will truly maximize performance? In this second edition of The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery, endurance and recovery coach Sage Rountree, PhD, explains exactly how to get the most out of training by optimizing recovery time.

Rountree begins by examining the importance of recovery, how athletes can measure their own state of recovery, and what can go wrong when recovery is insufficient. Rountree then provides proven techniques to enhance recovery and improve performance, emphasizing the fundamentals of sleep, nutrition, and stress management. Finally, readers are provided with various sample recovery plans for all types of training and competition.

This second edition features up-to-date research that has emerged to support the importance of basic recovery strategies and includes a much-needed, careful look at new devices on the market. The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery provides readers with an evidence-based approach to finding the right balance between stress and rest.

Sage Rountree, PhD, is a specialist in yoga for athletes, an endurance sports coach, a yoga teacher trainer at the highest level, and co-owner of the Carolina Yoga Company. Sage is the author of many books, including The Athlete’s Guide to Yoga, The Runner’s Guide to Yoga, and Racing Wisely. She has written for Runners World, Yoga Journal, and USA Triathlon Life, among others. For more information, visit sagerountree.com.

An invaluable guide to help athletes maximize training gains by making the most of their recovery time.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers May 2024 248 pages 88 illustrations Paperback 978 1 5381 8147 8 $19.95 / £14.99 eBook 978 1 5381 8148 5 $19.00 / £14.99 Sports & Recreation • Exercise / General

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The Orvis Ultimate Book of Fly Fishing Secrets from the Orvis Experts

By Tom Rosenbauer The Orvis Ultimate Book of Fly Fishing is a grand tour of the world of fly-fishing strategies and techniques, from Orvis’s world-famous team of experts and advisors. In large format with rich and helpful color photos and drawings, the book covers everything from basic fishing knots and casts to expert techniques you won’t see in standard books.

Besides trout technique and secrets for rivers and lakes, the book also covers the worlds of fly fishing for bonefish, striped bass, permit, bluefish, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, and steelhead. Learn how to nymph for steelhead from Matt Supinski. Find out how to catch the elusive permit from Jack Samson. Take a lesson from John Shewey on swinging a classic wet fly for West Coast steelhead. Learn how to find stripers along Northeast beaches from Lou Tabory. Find out which knots work best for saltwater fly fishing. Tom Rosenbauer will tell you how to read a trout stream and approach the fish, then discover his secrets for catching trout on dry flies and nymphs. Jim Lepage shares his knowledge on catching trout in ponds and lakes, then Bill Tapply will tell you how to catch freshwater bass on flies. Polish your fly casting with world expert Tom Deck. All this and much more in the most comprehensive and attractive book in the Orvis line.

Tom Rosenabauer is the author of The Orvis Guide to Reading Trout Streams, The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide, and many other important books for fly fishers. He is the vice president of marketing at the Orvis Company in Manchester, Vermont.

A valuable reference for novice and expert anglers alike, from the world’s most respected name in fly fishing.

Lyons Press June 2024 256 pages 345 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 8155 4 $34.95 / £30.00 Sports & Recreation • Fishing

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Euro Nymphing Tips, Tactics, and Techniques

By Josh Miller A complete guide to Euro nymphing from one of the most successful fly fishing experts.

Euro nymphing (also once called Czech nymphing) is a broad term for a wide range of subsurface fly fishing techniques that rely on long leaders, light fly lines, and long rods. Because of the light lines, anglers can get better drifts, sink their flies faster, and detect even subtle strikes—with proper technique. Fly Fishing Team USA member Josh Miller is one of the most successful guides and coaches teaching this method, and in this book he shares everything he knows about approach, presentation, and choosing the right flies.

Josh Miller has been a member of Fly Fishing Team USA for the past four seasons. Josh is an Orvis signature fly designer and a Fulling Mill ambassador.

He works for International Angler and is a popular presenter at the fly fishing shows. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Ice Fishing Guide to Great Techniques for Catching Walleye, Pike, Perch, Trout, and Panfish

By Steven A. Griffin A thorough update of Griffin’s 1985 ice-fishing guide.

Steve Griffin has been ice fishing and writing about it for 40+ years. He published the first edition of his ice-fishing guide with Stackpole in the mid-80s and now updates it to include all that has changed in the sport including the current methods for taking pike, walleye, trout, perch, and panfish and the latest on tackle, materials, late ice conditions, shelters, and electronics Steven A. Griffin is a career-long writer specializing in the outdoors. He is author or co-author of nine books, including Snowshoeing, The Camping Sourcebook and The Fishing Sourcebook. He writes regularly for Michigan Outdoors and has taught journalism at Central Michigan University. Steve lives in the ice-fishing state of Michigan.

Stackpole Books April 2024 • 192 pages • 141 illustrations

Stackpole Books May 2024 • 160 pages • 46 illustrations

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Europe by Eurail 2024 Touring Europe by Train

By Laverne Ferguson-Kosinski, revised by Darren Price Europe by Eurail has been the train traveler’s one-stop source for visiting Europe’s cities and countries by rail for nearly fifty years. Newly revised and updated, this comprehensive annual guide provides the latest information on fares, schedules, and pass options, as well as detailed information on more than one hundred specific rail excursions and sightseeing options.

LaVerne Ferguson-Kosinski and her late husband, George Ferguson, first coauthored this unique and comprehensive how-to guide in 1980. They also coauthored Britain by BritRail (Globe Pequot).

A complete up-to-date guide for touring Europe by rail.

Globe Pequot May 2024 582 pages 21 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7812 7 $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7813 4 $23.50 / £17.99 Travel • Food, Lodging & Transportation / Rail Travel

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Taiwan 101 Studying, Working, and Traveling in Today’s Taiwan

This book provides a practical, up-to-date, guide to navigating life in Taiwan. It is not a travel guidebook, but rather provides detailed information for the foreign resident in Taiwan, whether they be studying or working.

It provides a wealth of information covering everything from renting apartments, taking care of your daily needs, what and where to eat, to Taiwanese work ethic and business culture, how to make the most of your study of Chinese, how to get around, and more. The book is illustrated with relevant photos that contextualize the text and enhance reader’s understanding of the information.

Matthew B. Christensen is Professor of Chinese at Brigham Young University, where he has been teaching for the past 26 years. He is also the director of the BYU Chinese Flagship Center. He has directed and managed Flagship and Study Abroad programs at Nanjing University since the late 90’s.

Henrietta S. Yang is Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics and former Co-Director of the Chinese Language Flagship Program at the University of Mississippi. Before joining the University of Mississippi, Yang served as a teaching team leader at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California before she joined the faculty at Morehouse College where Yang was Associate Professor of Chinese Studies. Yang has directed and managed study abroad programs in China and Taiwan for more than 10 years.

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The essential guide to navigating life in Taiwan as a foreign resident.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 2024 126 pages 64 illustrations Hardback 978 1 5381 8780 7 $35.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8781 4 $33.00 / £25.00 Travel • Asia / East / Taiwan

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Cargo of Hope

Tap Dancing on Everest

Voyages of the Humanitarian Ship Vega

A Memoir

By Shane Granger, illustrated by Margarete Macoun

By Mimi Zieman

How a historic ship found new purpose in delivering aid to some of the most remote places.

In December 2004, Shane Granger and Meggi Macoun had just arrived in Malaysia when the Boxing Day tsunami put thousands of people in dire need. Shane and Meggi loaded their vessel with donated food and medical supplies, then set sail for Sumatra to deliver aid. This is the story of the historic ship Vega’s first missions of mercy—a real-life sea tale complete with vicious storms, heartrending moments, and priceless glimpses into life on some of the world’s most remote tropical islands.

Shane Granger and Meggi Macoun live on the historic wooden sailing boat Vega. Since 2004, they deliver donated educational and medical supplies to remote island communities in Eastern Indonesia and East Timor.

INTER NATIONAL AUTHOR

How a third-year medical student excelled as the doctor on an outrageous pioneering Everest expedition.

Tap Dancing on Everest recounts Mimi Zieman’s unlikely journey from an upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish community in 1970s New York City as the daughter of immigrants, to an audacious and historic Everest expedition in 1988.

Mimi Zieman is a board-certified OB/GYN, author, speaker, and reproductive rights activist. Zieman has treated frozen limbs on the highest mountain, delivered triplets near the world’s deepest ocean trench, tap danced in Broadway studios, and has been a suburban mom of three—all experiences that have prepared her for unexpected challenges.

Zieman lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lyons Press April 2024 • 256 pages • 69 Illustrations

Falcon Guides June 2024 • 200 pages

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The Basketball Book of Why (and Who, What, When, Where, and How) The Answers to Questions You’ve Always Wondered about Hoops

By Wayne Stewart How was basketball born? Why is the area in the paint and around the free throw circle known as the key?

When did the NBA begin play? What team was arguably the worst NBA squad ever? Who was the highest drafted college player who never played a single game in the NBA? This book provides over 100 questions and detailed answers concerning the traditions, rules, and history of basketball. Organized by the sport’s three eras—its birth through 1945, the NBA from 1946 through 1999, and the game today—it answers questions about the sport at all levels, from college games to the Olympics. A bonus chapter provides a who, what, when, where, why, and how of basketball—the perfect resource to settle arguments or to answer challenging trivia questions.

Wayne Stewart is the author of thirty-eight 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.

The book all basketball fans need.

Lyons Press January 2024 160 pages Paperback 978 1 4930 7276 7 $19.95 / £14.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7277 4 $19.00 / £14.99 Sports & Recreation • Reference

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The Grandfather of Black Basketball The Life and Times of Dr. E. B. Henderson

By Edwin Bancroft Henderson II The Grandfather of Black Basketball is the first contemporary biography of the man credited with introducing basketball to African Americans on a widescale and organized basis. Dr. Edwin Bancroft Henderson was the son of working-class parents born in slavery.

A driven, intelligent, and charismatic young man, Henderson attended Harvard University’s Dudley Sargent School of Physical Training. There he met the leaders in the new field of physical education and recognized athletics—and basketball, especially—as a public health initiative and a way that Black youth could gain college scholarships and debunk the idea of racial inferiority.

In this book Edwin Bancroft Henderson II, Dr. Henderson’s grandson, provides unprecedented detail and insight into this influential figure in Black history. Overlooked for decades, Henderson was finally enshrined in the National Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013 as a contributor to the game. The Grandfather of Black Basketball gives long-overdue recognition to a sports pioneer, civil rights activist, author, educator, and pragmatic humanitarian who fought his entire life to improve opportunities for African American youth through athletics.

Edwin Bancroft Henderson II is the founding president and director of the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation, whose mission it is to research, preserve and celebrate the African American and civil rights history of Falls Church, Fairfax County, and Northern Virginia. He received the NAACP’s African American History Preservation Award and was named a National Trust for Historic Preservation Diversity Scholar. He is a Life Member of the NAACP and a member of the Historical Society of Washington. He has served on the Falls Church Historical Commission since 1995. Henderson was an educator for 25 years and is the namesake of Dr. E. B. Henderson.

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The story of the remarkable man credited with pioneering basketball among African Americans.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 2024 248 pages 33 illustrations Hardback 978 1 5381 6361 0 $36.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6362 7 $34.00 / £25.00 Sports & Recreation • Basketball

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The Tigerbelles

In a League of Her Own

Olympic Legends from Tennessee State

Celebrating Female Firsts in Sports

By Aime Alley Card

By Bonnie-Jill Laflin

An inspirational story of achieving Olympic glory against the odds.

The inspiring stories of nineteen groundbreaking women in the world of sport.

The Tigerbelles tells the epic story of the 1960 Tennessee State University all-black women’s track team, which found Olympic glory at the 1960 games in Rome. The Tigerbelles wanted to change the world’s perception of what a group of young Black women in the Jim Crow south were capable of.

Operating on a shoestring budget and pitted dirt track, they shared a common goal: to represent the USA in Track and Field. Based on memoirs and interviews with surviving team members, this is the story of an impossible dream come true.

In A League of Her Own some of the most influential women in sports tell their stories of courage, adversity, and triumph to trailblazer Bonnie-Jill Laflin. Using exclusive interviews and her own unique lens, former NBA scout and NFL cheerleader Bonnie-Jill Laflin captures the remarkable life journeys of these iconic women whose bravery and hard work have changed the face of sports and culture.

Aime Alley Card has an active presence on social media in the writers’ communities and is a nonfiction editor for Pangyrus literary magazine and a board member for the Women’s National Book Association, Boston Chapter.

Bonnie-Jill Laflin is the first and only female NBA scout, holding the front office position with the Los Angeles Lakers, and is the first female to be awarded six championship rings in two professional sports.

Laflin is a sports reporter and host. Laflin also founded the non-profit Hounds and Heroes.

Lyons Press March 2024 • 240 pages • 31 illustrations

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers April 2024 • 224 pages • 32 illustrations

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Unbound

All in Stride

Unforgettable True Stories from the World of Endurance Sports

A Journey in Running, Courage, and the Search for the American Dream

By Bill Donahue, foreword by Alex Hutchinson

By Johanna Garton

Gripping stories of determination from the most challenging sporting pursuits.

An inspiring story of sporting success and an examination of what it means to be American.

Unbound is a fascinating collection of stories from the world of endurance sports, written by awardwinning journalist Bill Donahue. They include the daring travels of Swiss explorer Sarah Marquis, cross-country skiing in Alaska with the U.S. military, a visit with Tour de France contender Nairo Quintana in his Colombian village, and many more.

All in Stride tells the inspiring stories of runners Shadrack Kipchirchir and Elvin Kibet and their journeys from rural Kenyan villages to American colleges, their service as U.S. soldiers, and becoming professional athletes. Their stories examine issues of race, gender, culture, and the ever-changing landscape of what it means to be American.

Bill Donahue is an independent journalist who has written for Outside, Harper’s Wired, the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic Adventure, and more. He is the author of Runaway: How a Slave Defied America’s First President and The Secret World of Saints: Inside the Catholic Church and the Mysterious Process of Anointing the Holy Dead. He is a three-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Awards gold medal for adventure travel writing.

Johanna Garton is a sportswriter and crosscountry coach in Denver. She is the author of Edge of the Map, about mountaineer Christine Boskoff, which is currently being developed into a feature film. Garton ran for Syracuse University and has run more than twenty marathons, including five finishes at the Boston Marathon. Learn more by visiting johannagarton.com.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 • 256 pages

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The Thefts of the Mona Lisa The Complete Story of the World’s Most Famous Artwork

By Noah Charney If you read one book on the Mona Lisa, let this be it. From the artwork to its theft and role in popular culture, The Thefts of the Mona Lisa provides the complete story.

Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait, the Mona Lisa, is without doubt the world’s most famous painting. It achieved its fame not only because it is a remarkable example of Renaissance portraiture, but because of its criminal history. The Mona Lisa (also called La Gioconda or La Joconde) was stolen on 21 August 1911 by an Italian, Vincenzo Peruggia. His successful theft of the painting from the Louvre, the farcical manhunt that followed, and Peruggia’s subsequent trial in Florence were highly publicized catapulting an already admired painting into stratospheric heights of fame.

This book examines the criminal biography of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, with a focus on separating fact from fiction, and in the process also tells of Leonardo’s creation of the Mona Lisa, discusses why it is so famous, and investigates two other events in its history. First, the so-called “affaire des statuettes,” in which Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire were arrested under suspicion of involvement in the theft of the Mona Lisa. Second, the question as to whether the Nazis stole the Mona Lisa during the Second World War. This book tells the whole story of the world’s most famous painting.

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Noah Charney is an internationally bestselling author of more than a dozen books and a professor of art history specializing in art crime. His novel, The Art Thief, was a bestseller in five countries and is translated into 17 languages. His book Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Charney is now a professor at University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

The complete Mona Lisa story which includes that of the world’s most famous art theft for which Pablo Picasso was arrested as a suspect.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers April 2024 160 pages 21 illustrations Hardback 978 1 5381 8136 2 $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8137 9 $30.50 / £25.00 True Crime • Heists & Robberies

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Tinseltown Gangsters

Street Fight

The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Hollywood

The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s

By Jeffrey Sussman

By Anne Morrissy

The fast-paced true story of the Hollywood Mob.

The until now untold story of Chicago’s deadly taxicab wars.

Like sharks to blood in the water, the mob arrived in Hollywood greedy and ready to tear away huge chunks of cash. Opportunistic mobsters saw labor unions as the means for muscling into the movie industry and extorting millions of dollars from studio bosses. Painting colorful portraits of numerous mobsters, producers, actors, and directors, Tinseltown Gangsters tells the gripping, true story of corruption and greed in Hollywood throughout much of the twentieth century.

Jeffrey Sussman is the author of 16 books, six of which have been published by Rowman and Littlefield, including Sin City Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Las Vegas and Big Apple Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in New York. Jeffrey lives in New York City.

Street Fight is the story of the deadly taxicab wars that plagued Chicago during the 1920s and led to laws that still govern how cab companies work today. With extensive research and interviews, Anne Morrissy vividly recreates Chicago’s Taxi Wars, bringing to print this nearly forgotten story. Buffeted by a supporting cast of larger-than-life Jazz Age characters — including Johnny Torrio and Al Capone — Street Fight: The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s restores to history these deadly wars that played out on the city’s streets a century ago.

Anne Morrissy is a writer and magazine editor. Her first book, Running the Reds: The First 100 Years of the Water Safety Patrol, 1920-2020, was published in 2019.

A graduate of Kenyon College, she splits her time between Chicago and Williams Bay, Wisconsin.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers March 2024 • 284 pages • 11 illustrations

Lyons Press May 2024 • 256 pages • 19 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 7356 5 • $36.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7357 2 • $34.00 / £25.00

Hardback 978 1 4930 6867 8 • $29.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 4930 6868 5 • $28.00 / £19.99

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The Bulldog Detective

Mafia Miami

William J. Flynn and America’s First War against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists

Operation Paesan Blues and How FBI Politics Almost Derailed the Biggest Case of My Career

By Jeffrey D. Simon

By Jerry Hester

Fascinating, exciting, and at times tragic true crime.

A remarkable insider account of a renowned FBI investigation into organised crime.

This is the first book to tell the story of William J. Flynn, the first government official to bring down the powerful Mafia, uncover a sophisticated German spy ring in the United States, and launch a formal war on terrorism. As the Director of the Bureau of Investigation, the forerunner to the FBI, Flynn would become one of the most respected and effective law enforcement officials in American history.

This is a story about Operation Paesan Blues, an FBI Organized crime investigation that began with little chance of success, and ultimately became an internationally renowned investigation. This firstperson account takes place primarily in Miami, with a few brief stopovers in New York and Italy along the way. This remarkable story also takes the reader through the challenges of initiating an FBI investigation, and the many twists and turns and inevitable administrative roadblocks one encounters while running a high-profile FBI investigation.

Jeffrey D. Simon is an internationally renowned author, lecturer, and consultant on terrorism and political violence. He is president of Political Risk Assessment Company, Inc., and a visiting lecturer in the Department of Political Science at UCLA.

Jerry Hester is a retired Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He led criminal investigations into violations of federal law involving organized crime, narcotics, public corruption, and counter terrorism matters.

Prometheus March 2024 • 272 pages • 33 illustrations

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers March 2024 • 180 pages • 13 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 6338 8865 4 • $29.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 6338 8866 1 • $28.50 / £19.99

Hardback 978 1 5381 6225 5 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8054 9 • $36.00 / £30.00

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The Berman Murders

Church Pastor, Child Trafficker

Unraveling the Mojave Desert’s Most Mysterious Unsolved Crime

Elsa Cuellar and the Crimes of a Gateway City

By Roger Rodriguez

By Doug Kari A gripping case of unsolved murder.

On January 6, 1986, a couple on a camping trip in the Mojave Desert set out for a stroll and never returned.

Barry and Louise Berman had been murdered.

Despite extensive investigations, to date there’s never been an arrest made – let alone a conviction. But this doesn’t mean the crime is unsolvable. After years of investigation, research, and interviews, Kari was able to link the Berman murders to a Cambodian sex crimes and trafficking case involving a former Marine. This is the first book to tell the full story of the Berman murders and uncover the likely suspect.

The truly shocking story of the crimes of Elsa Cuellar.

The disturbing true story of Elsa Cuellar – one of the most notorious child traffickers you’ve ever heard of. Posing as pastor, doctor, or lawyer, Elsa Cuellar made a business of trafficking young girls across the Mexican–US border in the 1990s. But she did not only advertise her victims to older men in the US—her true motive was to ensure these young girls got pregnant to supply her underground baby selling enterprise.

Doug Kari is an attorney and journalist who focuses on true crime. Doug’s articles have run in Las Vegas Review-Journal, LA Weekly, LA Times, and many other outlets.

Roger Rodriguez is an American author born in Houston, Texas. His book The Long Way to Mexico won an International Latino Book Award (2022) and Silver Book Fest Award (2022). His work The Grass Beneath His Feet about death row inmate Charles Victor Thompson was translated into French, German, and Italian.

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March 2024 • 246 pages • 10 illustrations

March 2024 • 228 pages • 20 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 8638 1 • $34.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8639 8 • $32.00 / £25.00

Hardback 978 1 5381 8506 3 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8507 0 • $30.00 / £25.00

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True Crime • Organized Crime

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Muppets in Moscow The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia

By Natasha Lance Rogoff

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With the Muppets envisioned as ideal ambassadors of Western values, no one anticipated just how challenging and dangerous this would prove to be.

Explores the post-Soviet societal tensions that continue to thwart the Russian people’s efforts to create a better future for their country. With an updated postscript on the war in Ukraine.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 • 302 pages • 26 illustrations Paperback 978 1 5381 8753 1 • $18.95 / £14.99 Previously published in hardback (2022) 978 1 5381 6128 9 • $26.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 5381 6129 6 • $18.00 / £13.99 Audiobook 978 1 5381 7445 6 • $26.95 / £19.99 Biography & Autobiography • Entertainment & Performing Arts

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Oppenheimer Portrait of an Enigma

By Jeremy Bernstein Illustrated with black-and-white photographs.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a puzzle to everyone. The nuclear physicist most responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb, he was a genius both scientifically and otherwise. His standards were impossibly high. He read widely in many languages, wrote poetry, and did superb science. Yet in Jeremy Bernstein’s intensely interesting biographical memoir, Oppenheimer emerges as a man unsure of his identity and captive to an element of selfdestructiveness in his makeup.

As a former colleague of Oppenheimer’s, Jeremy Bernstein has composed a book that is both personal and historical, bringing the reader close to the life and workings of an extraordinary and controversial man.

Filled with revealing insights and details that set the historical record straight, Oppenheimer is that rare quantity: a vastly entertaining study of one of the most important and enigmatic scientists of the atomic age.

Theoretical physicist and a writer on popular science, Jeremy Bernstein is a former staff writer for the New Yorker, contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, New York Review of Books, and Scientific American, among others, and author of numerous books.

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A revealing profile of the father of the atomic bomb.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers April 2024 238 pages Paperback 978 1 5381 9015 9 • $16.50 / £12.99 Previously published in hardback (2004) 978 1 5666 3569 1 • $29.95 / £18.99 Paperback 978 1 5666 3666 7 • $14.95 / £11.99 eBook 978 1 4616 0279 8 • $13.99 / £10.99 Biography & Autobiography • Science & Technology

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The Lust for Blood Why We Are Fascinated by Death, Murder, Horror, and Violence

By Jeffrey A. Kottler How do we explain the lurid fascination that most people experience when confronted by real or simulated acts of violence, murder, horror, and crime? This is the subject examined in this candid assessment of our dark vicarious thrills. Based on a series of interviews with perpetrators, victims, and “consumers” of violence, including several celebrities, the author of a best-selling book on serial killers explores what there is about this subject that draws such a wide audience.

Unlike many other books that attempt to probe the murky psyches of deviant individuals, this book focuses on normal, average people who, despite themselves, enjoy getting close to the most forbidden, perverse side of destruction and evil. The persons interviewed range from homicide detectives and emergency room personnel to a heavyweight boxer and groupies of serial killers on death row. The author considers ideas from a variety of theories and research to explain our responses to violence, raises questions about the shifting line be tween normal and abnormal, evaluates the confusion and ambivalence that many people feel when witnessing others’ suffering, and suggests future trends in society’s attitudes toward violence.

Jeffrey A. Kottler, PhD, is the author of over eighty nonfiction books including the New York Times bestseller The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer. He is one of the foremost psychologists in the world writing about issues related to human behavior.

He has written dozens of classic texts and manuals for psychotherapists and teachers. Jeffrey is Professor of Counseling at California State University, Fullerton.

A candid assessment of our dark vicarious thrills.

Prometheus March 2024 312 pages 56 illustrations Paperback 978 1 6338 8948 4 $21.95 / £16.99 Previously published in hardback (2010) 978 1 6161 4228 5 $25.00 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 6161 4276 6 $23.50 / £17.99 Psychology • Social Psychology

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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.

Brookings Institution Press June 2024 320 pages Paperback 978 0 8157 4061 2 $19.95 / £14.99 Previously published in hardback (2019) 978 0 8157 3532 8 $24.99 / £18.99 eBook 978 0 8157 3533 5 $9.99 / £7.99 Computers • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

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Manipulated Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth

By Theresa Payton Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton tells battlefront stories from the global war being conducted through clicks, swipes, internet access, technical backdoors and massive espionage schemes. She investigates the cyberwarriors who are planning tomorrow’s attacks, weaving a fascinating tale of Artificial Intelligent mutations carrying out attacks without human intervention, “deepfake” videos that look real to the naked eye, and chatbots that beget other chatbots.

Finally, Payton offers readers telltale signs that their most fundamental beliefs are being meddled with and actions they can take or demand that corporations and elected officials must take before it is too late.

The updated paperback edition, including new information on real world cases of AI, ChatGPT, TikTok, and all the latest and greatest exploits of manipulation campaigns, will leave readers both captivated and chilled to the bone.

Theresa M. Payton served as the first female Chief Information Officer for the White House during the President George W. Bush administration and is currently CEO and founder of Fortalice Solutions, a boutique cybersecurity and intelligence services company that’s listed in the Global Cybersecurity Top 500. She starred as the Deputy Commander of Intelligence on the CBS TV series Hunted and is a frequent guest on national and international news outlets. Among her many accolades are the FBI Director’s award for community service.

Battlefront stories from the global war in cyberspace.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 208 pages Paperback 978 1 5381 8865 1 • $18.95 / £14.99 eBook 978 1 5381 8866 8 • $18.00 / £13.99 Previously published in hardback (2020) 978 1 5381 3350 7 • $26.95 / £19.99 eBook 978 1 5381 3351 4 • $28.50 / £19.99 Political Science • Political Process / Campaigns & Elections

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The Making of Paris The Story of How Paris Evolved From a Fishing Village Into the World’s Most Beautiful City

By Russell Kelley Paris has long been the world’s most popular destination and, in the view of many, the world’s most beautiful city – the product of two thousand years of continuous improvement and refinement. The Making of Paris is the story of how Paris evolved from a small fishing village on an island in the middle of the Seine River into the City of Light. The focus of the book is on the city as seen from the street, in order to understand the evolution of the urban landscape of Paris through the rues and boulevards and the buildings and monuments from its long and storied past.

Russell Kelley is an American lawyer who has lived in Paris for nearly 30 years. A dedicated flâneur, he has walked the length and breadth of his adopted city, marveling at its splendid monuments, perspectives and panoramas. Those walks led to an unending quest to understand how the urban landscape of Paris, the world’s most beautiful city, evolved over the centuries. When in the US, he lives in Palm Beach, Florida.

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The story of how Paris has evolved over two thousand years from a fishing village into the world’s most beautiful city.

Lyons Press May 2024 320 pages 123 illustrations Paperback 978 1 4930 7188 3 $22.95 / £17.99 Previously published in hardback (2021) 978 1 4930 4910 3 $29.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 4930 5054 3 $21.50 / £16.99 History • Europe / France

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The Myth of American Inequality

Poisoning the Pacific

How Government Biases Policy Debate

The US Military’s Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange

By Phil Gramm, Robert Ekelund and John Early

By Jon Mitchell, foreword by John W. Dower A powerful corrective to the debate on inequalty in America.

Phil Gramm served six years in the US House of Representatives and eighteen years in the US Senate.

He lives in the Helotes, Texas. Bob Ekelund is emeritus professor and eminent scholar in economics at Auburn University. He lives and works in Auburn, Alabama. John Early is a mathematical economist. He lives joyfully in Charleston, South Carolina.

In cogent, accessible prose, The Myth of American Inequality offers a useful and timely corrective to a popular narrative that is at odds with reality. Regardless of your politics, this book deserve to inform the conversation going forward.

—Jason L. Riley, Wall Street Journal columnist and author of The Black Boom

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 • 264 pages • 44 illustrations Paperback 978 1 5381 9013 5 • $19.95 / £14.99 eBook 978 1 5381 9014 2 • $18.95 / £14.99 Previously published in hardback (2022) 978 1 5381 6738 0 • $29.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6739 7 • $13.99 / £10.99 Political Science • Public Policy / Economic Policy

A revealing investigation into the US Military’s contamination of the Pacific region.

For decades, the US military has been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances. Service members, their families, and residents have been exposed—but the US has long hidden the damage and ignored victims. This book reveals the horrific extent of contamination in the Pacific and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.

Jon Mitchell is an investigative journalist with the Okinawa Times and winner of the 2015 Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan’s lifetime achievement award for press freedom. He lives in Japan. John W. Dower is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. INTER NATIONAL AUTHOR

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 • 316 pages • 30 illustrations Paperback 978 1 5381 8929 0 • $18.95 / £14.99 Previously published in hardback (2010) 978 1 5381 3033 9 • $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 5381 3034 6 • $23.50 / £17.99 History • Asia / Japan

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The Battle of Prokhorovka

Generals in the Making

The Tank Battle at Kursk, the Largest Clash of Armor in History

How Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Their Peers Became the Commanders Who Won World War II

By Christopher A. Lawrence

By Benjamin Runkle An account of the largest armor battle in history.

The Battle of Kursk was one of the defining moments of World War II. In July 1943, German forces launched a massive attack. The resulting clash of tanks at Prokhorovka marked a turning point on the Eastern Front; the Red Army gained the strategic initiative and would not lose it.

Christopher A. Lawrence is president of The Dupuy Institute, an organization dedicated to scholarly research and analysis of military history and current armed conflict. He lives near Washington, DC.

An invaluable prequel to every history of World War II. Part military history and part biography, Generals in the Making is the first comprehensive history of the United States’ World War II generals between the wars, covering not only the lives and careers these officers, but also the crucible of military ideas and innovation in which they served.

Benjamin Runkle is a former paratrooper and presidential speechwriter with a Harvard PhD and a Bronze Star from Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He is currently a senior policy fellow with Artis International and an adjunct lecturer in Johns Hopkins University’s Global Security Program. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Stackpole Books April 2024 • 656 pages • 100 illustrations

Stackpole Books April 2024 • 464 pages • 25 illustrations

Paperback 978 0 8117 7548 9 • $44.95 / £35.00 Previously published in hardback (2019) 978 0 8117 3807 1 • $44.95 / £35.00 eBook 978 0 8117 6812 2 • $42.50 / £35.00

Paperback 978 0 8117 7546 5 • $29.95 / £25.00 Previously published in hardback (2019) 978 0 8117 3850 7 • $34.95 / £30.00 eBook 978 0 8117 6849 8 • $28.50 / £19.99

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Marie Antoinette’s World

Kepler and the Universe

Intrigue, Infidelity, and Adultery in Versailles

How One Man Revolutionized Astronomy

By Will Bashor

By David K. Love, foreword by Richard Ellis

A fascinating glimpse behind the decorative screens of Versailles.

The colorful story of Johannes Kepler and his vital role in the history of astronomy.

This riveting book explores the little-known intimate life of Marie Antoinette and her family in a world filled with intrigue, infidelity, and adultery.

Will Bashor unveils the hedonistic atmosphere at Versailles as we learn the secret language of the queen’s fan and explore the hidden passageways and staircases of endless intrigue at the palace.

A contemporary of Galileo and a forerunner of Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a pioneering German scientist and a pivotal figure in the history of astronomy. This biography brings the man and his scientific discoveries to life.

Will Bashor is the author of the award-winning Marie Antoinette’s Head: The Royal Hairdresser, the Queen, and the Revolution. He holds a doctorate in international studies from the American Graduate School in Paris and is professor of global issues at Franklin University. He lives in Barcelona, Spain.

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David K. Love is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society and lectured on the history of astronomy and on the origins and evolution of the universe.

Love lives in Exeter, UK.

[A]n accessible and well-written guide to the man and his science. Highly recommended.

—Chris Lintott, professor of astrophysics, University of Oxford, and presenter of the BBC’s The Sky at Night

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers June 2024 • 320 pages • 51 illustrations

Prometheus February 2024 • 256 pages • 50 illustrations

Paperback 978 1 5381 8944 3 • $19.95 / £14.99 Previously published in hardback (2020) 978 1 5381 3824 3 • $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 5381 3825 0 • $23.50 / £17.99

Paperback 978 1 6338 8947 7 • $21.95 / £16.99 Previously published in hardback (2015) 978 1 6338 8106 8 • $29.95 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 6338 8107 5 • $28.50 / £19.99

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