Volume book sales have increased for the last two years in Britain and no doubt in many other countries too. It is great to see independent publishers doing particularly well, and the Independent Alliance, of which we are proud to be a member, going from strength to strength. We love every book in this catalogue but highlight the Big Ideas series which we launch in January – important books by contemporary thinkers on challenging subjects – which just about sums up our ambitions for all our titles – with the odd amuse bouche thrown in to freshen the palette. 2007 has been an exciting year with Serpent’s Tail joining us. Please look at their catalogue too for some great books – chilli hot to vary the diet. And of course, we are completely indebted to our authors without whom there would be no books, no publishing and no Profile. Happy reading.
Andrew Franklin Publisher
Sam Gosling
Snoop The Secret Language of Everyday Things How a little harmless spying can speak volumes For ten years Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves and how we form impressions of others. His ingenious research is carried out by teams of scientific snoops who poke around in people’s homes and offices. Often our possessions and daily lives can unexpectedly say more about us than even our most intimate conversations. Once you know what signs to look out for, you can see how reliable a new boyfriend is by peeking into his bathroom cabinet or check whether an employee is committed to her job by analysing her desk. The insights we gain can boost our understanding of ourselves and sharpen our perceptions of others. Packed with original research and fascinating stories, Snoop is a captivating guidebook to our not-so-secret lives.
£15.00 288pp Demy hbk ISBN: 978 1 84668 018 2 Non Fiction June 2008 World excl USA/Can
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Sam Gosling studied at Leeds University and is now an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research is discussed in Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink. Snoop is his first book.
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Christopher McDougall
Born to Run The Rise of Ultra-running and the Super-athlete Tribe ‘Make friends with pain and you will never be alone’ Born to Run tells the amazing story of the Tarahumara, a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians who are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world. In 1993 one of them won the prestigious 100-mile Leadville race in Colorado wearing a toga and sandals – and he was fifty-seven-years old. Christopher McDougall describes here how he and the world’s top ultrarunners made the treacherous journey to learn the tribe’s techniques, and then race them. McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an ultrarunner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters – including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a marathon, pausing to down a beer at mile twenty.
Christopher McDougall is a contributing editor for Men’s Health and writer-atlarge for Runner’s World. He has been a sportswriter for Esquire and the New York Times magazine and has run numerous longdistance races, including the Death Valley marathon.
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£16.99 320pp plus 16pp b/w ills Demy hbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 823 3 Sport June 2008 World excl USA/Can
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ˇˇ Slavoj Zizek
Violence A controversial study of violence by the ‘Elvis of cultural theory’ ˇ ˇ is one of the most important Slavoj Zizek cultural theorists of our time. Tickets for his lectures sell out weeks in advance and a peer-reviewed journal is devoted to his work. But his unique combination of high and low culture, his capacity to fascinate the uninitiated and subvert the rules of academia have taken his fame far beyond the world’s lecture halls. This Slovenian academic turned cultural icon has been called ‘the Marx brother of political theory’ and the ‘one person culture mulcher’. In this controversial and sharp analysis, the ‘giant of Ljubljana’ casts a sideways glance at the subject of violence. He examines its hidden forms and causes, delving into the supposed ‘divine violence’ which propels suicide bombers and the unseen ‘systemic’ violence which lies behind outbursts, in Paris, New Orleans ˇˇ and beyond. Agree with him or not, Zizek provokes thought like few others. Launch title in the Big Ideas series edited by Lisa Appignanesi: contemporary thinkers, challenging subjects.
£12.99 224pp Demy PbO with flaps ISBN: 978 1 84668 017 5 Non Fiction January 2008 World excl USA/Can Tr
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ˇ ˇ is the author Slavoj Zizek of over forty books and has been dubbed ‘an academic rock star’. He is currently the international director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Birkbeck in London.
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Paul Ginsborg
Democracy A bold new analysis of our political system Political parties have lost a large percentage of their membership and effective power is ever more concentrated in the hands of their leaders. Behind these trends lie changing relationships between economics, the media and politics. Electoral spending has spiralled out of control, with powerful economic interests exercising undue influence. The ‘level playing field’ on which democracy’s contests have supposedly been fought, has become ever more sloping and uneven. In many ‘democratic’ countries media coverage, especially that of television, is heavily biased. Electors become viewers and active participation gives way to mass passivity. In order to reanimate and re-legitimise modern democracy, political historian Paul Ginsborg goes back to its roots and examines anew the relationship between representative and participatory democracy. From the Big Ideas series: contemporary thinkers, challenging subjects.
Paul Ginsborg is professor of contemporary European history at the University of Florence. He writes for many international newspapers, including the LRB.
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£12.99 224pp Demy PbO with flaps ISBN: 978 1 84668 093 9 Politics April 2008 World excl USA/Can Tr
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Julian Baggini
Complaint ‘Oh, wouldn’t the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?’ W. S. Gilbert We love to complain – as letters pages, phone-ins and blogs demonstrate. But there has been no book on the subject – until now. Conversation would be extremely limited if we stopped moaning. But where once we complained about things that really mattered, now we whinge about late trains and bad TV. Often our complaints are misguided: we think political parties should bicker less, but we also complain that there’s nothing to choose between them. Ranging from God’s protests towards Adam and Eve, to the French and American revolutions, and the reaction to the war on Iraq, this book examines why we complain; the different kinds of complaints we make; why men and women complain about different things; and why we complain less than Americans. You can’t complain about that! From the Big Ideas series: contemporary thinkers, challenging subjects.
£12.99 224pp Demy PbO with flaps ISBN: 978 1 84668 057 1 Non Fiction June 2008 World excl USA/Can Tr
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Julian Baggini is a British philosopher. His books include Welcome to Everytown and The Pig that Wants to be Eaten (both Granta) and he is cofounder and editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine.
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Charles Leadbeater
We-think The Power of Mass Creativity The future is us Once there was mass consumption, but increasingly our society is based on mass participation. Wikipedia, YouTube and Craigslist are all innovative examples; so are new forms of scientific research and political campaigning. We-think is about what the rise of these phenomena means for the way we organise ourselves – not just in digital businesses but in schools and hospitals, cities and mainstream corporations. This is a huge cultural shift. Gone is Henry Ford’s model of mass production for mass consumption; people want to be players, not spectators. Charles Leadbeater analyses these changes and describes how they will affect us and how we can make the most of them. In the spirit of its argument, early portions of We-think were published online at www.wethinkthebook.net.
Charles Leadbeater is one of the world’s authorities on creativity, having advised organisations from the BBC and RSC to Vodafone and Microsoft. His previous books include Living on Thin Air and Up the Down Escalator.
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£12.99 256pp Demy pbk original ISBN: 978 1 86197 892 9 Non Fiction March 2008 World excl USA/Can
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Duncan Fallowell
Going As Far As I Can The ultimate travel book ‘Mordant, energetic and outrageous …’ Camille Paglia When Duncan Fallowell was left some money he decided to put into practice a long held idea – to travel as far as possible from home. Why? ‘So that I need never travel again – and I could relax,’ he says. For him this meant travelling to New Zealand, where in the event another fantasy soon asserted itself – ‘to find the place of perfect exile’. A beach, a cottage, a person? This man’s curiosity leads him onto the strangest paths and he finds himself in pursuit of unknown painters and lost buildings and sex underground, of Karl Popper and a creature with the third eye and rosé wine, of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier who’d toured the country in the year of Fallowell’s birth, of suicidal writers and nuns and elusive answers to impossible questions. The faraway paradise gradually turns into a glittering stranger on the Pacific rim, filled with the uncertainties of our times – but also a wonderful place to breathe.
£12.99 256pp Demy hbk ISBN: 978 1 84668 069 4 Travel February 2008 World excl USA/Can
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Duncan Fallowell was born in London in 1948. He has written novels, travel books and cultural journalism and worked extensively with the German musical group Can.
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Joyce Tyldesley
Cleopatra Last Queen of Egypt What lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra’s eye. The Romans regarded her as ‘fatale monstrum’, a female tyrant. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare (and Elizabeth Taylor) portrayed her as an icon of tragic beauty. But who was Cleopatra, really? She was the last ruler of the Greek dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries. Highly educated, shrewd and manipulative (her liaisons with Caesar and Mark Antony were as much political as romantic) she steered her kingdom through taxing internal strife and against Roman imperialism. Stripping away our preconceptions, many of them as old as Cleopatra’s Roman enemies, skilled Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley gives us a colourful and detailed portrait of the famous Egyptian Queen.
Joyce Tyldesley’s books include acclaimed biographies of Rameses the Great, the queens Hatchepsut and Nefertiti and Egypt: How a Lost Civilization was Rediscovered, which accompanied a major BBC television series. She lives in Bolton, Lancashire.
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Simon Dixon
Catherine the Great ‘I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.’ Born an obscure German princess in 1729, branded a usurper and an assassin when she seized power, Catherine II, ‘the Great’, was to become by her death in 1796 the most celebrated monarch in Europe. During her thirty-four-year reign she turned her new empire from peripheral pariah to European great power. There was no greater transformation of fortunes in the eighteenth century. Hardworking, charismatic, formidably (and self-) educated, she had a commitment to ideas. Voltaire called her ‘The Star of the North’. She also flouted female convention, consorting openly with twelve successive favourites. Empress, empire-builder, intellectual, artcollector, lover – this magnificent new biography does full justice to a truly remarkable ruler.
£25.00 416pp with 32pp b/w ills Royal hbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 722 9 History April 2008 World excl USA/Can Tr
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Simon Dixon is professor of modern history at Leeds University, specialising in the history of imperial Russia. His previous books covered Peter the Great and the modernisation of Russia.
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Tony Grant (ed.)
More From Our Own Correspondent The most dangerous road in the world and other dispatches ‘The jewel in Radio 4’s crown’ Sue Arnold, Observer From Our Own Correspondent is a flagship programme for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service and has been on air for over fifty years. In this sequel to the exceedingly popular first volume, the BBC’s most celebrated correspondents, such as John Simpson, Lyse Doucet, Fergal Keane and Alan Johnston, take a closer look at the stories in their regions, describing much more than they can in a normal report. These dispatches from all around the world offer reportage with insight, colour and analysis and show why FOOC, as it is affectionately known, has become such a well-known and much-loved institution. ‘You don’t lose the detail in FOOC: it luxuriates in full, florid complexity.’ Guardian
Tony Grant has produced From Our Own Correspondent for fifteen years. He is married to a political correspondent and they have two children. He lives in London.
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£12.99 240pp Demy pbk original ISBN: 978 1 84668 077 9 Current Affairs May 2008 World Tr
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Geremie Barmé & Bruce Doar
The Forbidden City A palace of blood and tears at the heart of Chinese history At the heart of Beijing lies the great walled palace compound known as the Forbidden City whose mystique and history have played a huge role in defining China. This book is an amazing portrait of that storied collection of buildings which enables us to better understand the life of imperial China. First built by a Ming ruler in the fifteenth century, the Forbidden City was to be a terrestrial reflection of the celestial realm of the Jade Emperor. It was destroyed and rebuilt on an even more splendid scale by the final Manchu Emperors. Here we learn about the life that went on in those ancestral temples, lacquered chambers and vermilion halls. Fifty years ago Mao considered razing it all to the ground, now tourists shuffle through in tens of thousands.
£15.99 224pp with 20 b/w ills 200 x 135mm hbk ISBN: 978 1 84668 011 3 History January 2008 World excl USA/Can Tr
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Geremie Barmé and Bruce Doar both teach at the Pacific and Asian History division of the Australian National University, Canberra. Geremie Barmé has also worked on a number of film projects. They jointly edit the online China Heritage Quarterly.
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Rosemary Hill
Stonehenge ‘God knows what their use was’ – Samuel Pepys, 1668 The most famous prehistoric monument in Europe, Stonehenge is visited by hundreds of thousands every year. The great stones remain compelling because they are mysterious – were they built to greet the winter solstice, for goddess worship, as a funerary temple? Rosemary Hill describes what is known and believed about the monument’s construction from 3000 BC onwards. The Middle Ages were content with the story of it having been brought by Merlin from Ireland. Post-Reformation antiquaries gave us the conception of Stonehenge as a historical monument. Then the Victorians invented prehistory and Darwin himself came to measure it. In 1918 it passed into public ownership and 1926 saw the first forced entry by Druids. The Earth Mysteries Movement now sees the stones as a part of a greater web of ley lines and other phenomena. This rich and provocative book explores all this in presenting a monument whose history is as fascinating as its secret.
Rosemary Hill is a journalist and cultural historian. Her God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain was published in 2007. She lives in London.
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£15.99 224pp with 20 b/w ills 200 x 135mm hbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 865 3 History June 2008 World excl USA/Can Tr
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Robert Shapiro
Futurecast 2020 A Global Blueprint The shape of the world to come Robert Shapiro, an adviser to many leading American politicians over the years, from Daniel Moynihan to Bill Clinton, brings the wealth of his experience in international affairs to outline the shape of the world to come. He identifies the huge global shifts that are taking place in demographics, technology and in political and economic power, as Russia reasserts itself and China and India continue to grow at such heady rates. Shapiro predicts some seismic changes ahead of us and a dramatically different world. His lucid and perceptive analysis – his 20:20 vision – is essential reading for anyone with an eye to what the future really holds for us all.
£17.99 288pp Royal hbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 968 1 Current Affairs February 2008 World excl USA/Can
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Robert Shapiro has held numerous posts in US politics, advising Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Michael Dukakis and Daniel Moynihan amongst others. He spent four years (1997–2001) as US Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs.
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Katherine Ashenburg
Clean An Unsanitised History of Washing ‘I return to Paris in five days. Stop washing.’ Napoleon in a love letter to Josephine For the Romans, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant changing his shirt once a day, and using perfume to obliterate both his scent and everyone else’s, but never immersing himself in water. By the early 1900s an understanding of ‘germs’ and how to control them began to enter mainstream society – a precursor to our own time of ubiquitous hand sanitisers and germophobes who shake hands with their elbows. What has propelled our habits to shift over time and what do they say about who we are and how we live? Katherine Ashenburg uses the seemingly routine task of washing (or not) as a starting point for a unique exploration of Western culture. Clean takes us on a journey that is by turn edifying, humorous, startling and not always for the squeamish. Katherine Ashenburg has worked as an academic, a radio producer and arts and books editor. She has written for the New York Times and her books include The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die. She lives in Toronto.
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£12.99 256pp with b/w ills Demy hbk ISBN: 978 1 84688 095 3 History March 2008 World excl USA/Can
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Sandra Koa Wing (ed.)
A People’s History of the Second World War By the writers of Mass Observation ‘Now I don’t think a great deal about the “war in general” – I try to only think about day-to-day – even hour-to-hour – problems’ Nella Last This powerful, detailed and heartwarming account of the Second World War is told through the voices of those who wrote for the ‘Mass Observation’ project – ordinary men and women of almost every age, class and occupation. For years the British people endured bombs and the threat of invasion, and more than 140,000 civilians were killed or seriously wounded. This book tells the story of life on the home front: people fear for their families, wonder at social changes and mourn destroyed potato fields, while still living their lives, complaining about colleagues and falling in love.
Sandra Koa Wing studied life history research at the University of Sussex, where she was Mass Observation’s first development officer. She died in May 2007 at the age of twenty-eight.
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£8.99 320pp plus 16pp b/w ills B format pbk ISBN: 978 1 84668 088 5 History March 2008 World
Wonders of the World
‘Successfully captures the West’s fascination with Egypt’ Sunday Times £8.99 February 2008 978 1 86197 339 9
‘This fascinating book unravels the complex story of the most famous church in the world’ Sunday Telegraph
‘This book reads like the best sort of biography … fabulous’ Clive Aslet, Sunday Telegraph
£8.99 April 2008 978 1 86197 908 7
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‘Elegant, ironic, deeply researched mediation on what makes America America’ Financial Times
‘Outstanding … deals with a huge range of themes without losing nuance or historical sensitivity’ Sunday Times
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‘Lively and thought-provoking’ Sunday Telegraph £8.99 March 2008 978 1 86197 784 7
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Joe Moran
Queuing for Beginners The story of daily life from breakfast to bedtime ‘Wonderfully entertaining … every page pulses with humour’ Val Hennessy, Daily Mail ‘A thoroughly novel and refreshing way of looking at our recent history. I loved his book enormously.’ Andrew Marr £8.99 288pp B format pbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 841 7 History/Current Affairs
‘A book for everyone or, at least, for anyone who has ever waited for the kettle to boil and the toast to pop up, or sat on a sofa, crossed the road, gone to bed … Joe Moran writes more elegantly than a social historian has any right to.’ Andrew Martin, Sunday Times
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David Edgerton
The Shock of the Old Technology and Global History Since 1900 ‘He eviscerates our obsession with novelty …’ Sunday Times David Edgerton’s acclaimed The Shock of the Old is the first global account of the place of old and new technology in twentiethcentury history. This brilliant, thought-provoking book radically revises our understanding of the relationship between technology and society. £9.99 272pp with 20 b/w ills B format pbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 306 1 History
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‘Marvellous stuff, and absolutely spot-on.’ Simon Jenkins ‘A thought-provoking analysis offering a clear vision of a world blinded by the glare of shiny new stuff, but where bicycle production already outstrips car production.’ Sunday Telegraph
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Christopher Robbins
In Search of Kazakhstan The Land That Disappeared ‘A superlative addition to the literature of travel’ Observer Award-winning author Christopher Robbins gives us the real story on Kazakhstan. Crisscrossing the steppes and the cities, Robbins finds Eminem by a shrinking Aral Sea, joins nomads hunting with eagles, visits the scene of Dostoyevsky’s doomed first love and is enchanted by some of the most beautiful, unspoilt places on earth. ‘Extremely entertaining and informative … hilarious.’ Daily Telegraph
£7.99 288pp with maps and 20 b/w ills B format pbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 109 8 Travel
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Christopher Rush
Hellfire and Herring A Childhood Remembered ‘The book glitters with memory, like some marvellous parade’ Independent on Sunday ‘A generous, mythic, deeply pagan book suffused with Bible blackness, written to the pace of a lost time; it is also a vital work of regional literature, a work with saltwater in its veins’ Guardian ‘The tone is baroque, self-consciously, poetically literary, deeply allusive, emotionally raw, sensual and brutally, bravely honest’ Alan Taylor, Sunday Herald
£8.99 304pp B format pbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 974 2 Memoir
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Lynne Truss
A Certain Age Twelve monologues from the classic radio series ‘Truss is simply a huge talent’ Guardian
£7.99 256pp B format pbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 813 4 Fiction
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, featuring Dawn French, Douglas Hodge and others, these twelve fictional monologues are tales of love, romance, friendship and family. Here is the wife who feels better when her husband disappears; the pedant who undergoes a TV makeover; the swimmer who can’t escape the shadow of her sister. Whether describing fathers and daughters, married men, cat lovers or ‘other women’ Truss is always brilliantly perceptive.
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Tony Wolf & Suzanne Franks
Get Out Of My Life – 2nd edition But first take me and Alex into town A parent’s guide to the new teenager ‘Brilliant, frank, witty, sensible’ Daily Mail
£8.99 288pp B format pbk ISBN: 978 1 84668 087 8 Parenting
This new edition of the parenting classic and international bestseller has been updated to cover the latest developments in teenage life: the ipod, chat rooms, MSN, new drugs and new challenges. Teenagers are tough and anyone who has one needs help. Get Out Of My Life offers practical alternatives to anger, nagging and frustration and has specific recommendations for developing better relationships with even the most troublesome teenagers.
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Atul Gawande
Better A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance ‘A searing, deeply humane collection of essays about medical practice that has all the makings of a modern classic’ Sunday Times ‘Better is perfect bedside reading – although it might keep you awake – for doctors as well as patients, for the invalid and the hardy, for those too frightened to visit their GPs and, above all, for hypochondriacs. All will learn something of value from this infinitely wise and humane surgeon’ Tom Rosenthal, Daily Mail ‘Riveting, packed with insights, its luminous prose lifting effortlessly off the page’ Independent
£8.99 288pp B format pbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 657 4 Non Fiction
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Atul Gawande
Complications A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science ‘I don’t know if Atul Gawande was born to be a surgeon – I very much suspect so – but he was certainly born to write’ Bill Bryson ‘In a series of touching, scary and riveting stories about illness and healing, Gawande – a surgeon and philosopher – shows how medicine is a fallible science in which logic and human need collide’ Nicci Gerrard, Observer ‘Ever wondered how realistic ER is? Then read Gawande’s superb book’ Scotland on Sunday
£8.99 288pp B format pbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 498 3 Non Fiction
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Bernard Wasserstein
Israel & Palestine – 3rd edition Why They Fight and Can They Stop? The definitive concise history of the Israel–Palestine conflict, now updated to 2007
£8.99 240pp B format pbk ISBN: 978 1 84668 0922 History
In spite of the current diplomatic impasse and continuing bloodshed, Professor Wasserstein offers a realistic and persuasive basis for optimism in this revised and updated interpretation of the historical and contemporary realities of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Wasserstein challenges the conventional view of the struggle as driven primarily by irrational, nationalist and religious ideologies. Instead he focuses on population, land, labour and the social dynamics of political change.
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David Smith
The Dragon and the Elephant China, India and the New World Order China, India and the new world order
£8.99 304pp B format pbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 820 2 Economics
The rise of China and India will be the outstanding development of the twenty-first century, raising fundamental questions about both the structure of the world economy and the balance of global geopolitical power. David Smith analyses the implications of a world that is tilting rapidly eastwards.
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W. J. King & James G. Skakoon
The Unwritten Laws of Business ‘Read this’ Guardian Here are the ‘unwritten laws’ that guarantee success at work. Unknown to the modern reader, they resurfaced thanks to a company document that found an audience among America’s top CEOs – it turned out to draw heavily on a hidden gem published sixty years ago by the American Society of Engineers. The Unwritten Laws of Business updates the original phenomenon. Clear, wise and practical, it offers essential insights for everyone, from the intern to the Chief Executive. £6.99 112pp A format pbk ISBN: 978 1 84668 042 7 Business February 2008 World excl USA/Can
Jane Vass
The Daily Mail Tax Guide 2008/2009 The best tax guide on the market and the first published after the budget Nine out of ten people pay too much tax. Meanwhile the tax system has become increasingly complicated and fines for late payment total £2 million a year. Clear, comprehensive and jargon-free, The Daily Mail Tax Guide provides all the help taxpayers need. ‘An essential tool for everyone who pays tax.’ Investors Chronicle £9.99 352pp 210 x 156mm pbk ISBN: 978 1 84668 089 2 Personal Finance April 2008 World
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Wendy Walton & John Porteous
Inheritance Tax and Wealth Planning Keep the tax man at bay More and more ordinary people are being caught by a tax that many still think affects only the very wealthy – but this is no longer true. Inheritance tax currently applies to all estates over £300,000 and the recent increase in property values means that many more people now face the shock of massive tax bills on top of the emotional trauma of losing a family member. This invaluable and expert guide explains the pitfalls and points to the escape routes. £6.99 120pp A format pbk ISBN: 978 1 84668 096 0 Personal Finance January 2008 World
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Philip Coggan
Guide to Hedge Funds What they are, what they do, their advantages and their risks In 1990 hedge funds managed some $39 billion of assets. By late 2006 that figure had grown to a staggering $1.3 trillion. Equally staggering is the amount of money successful hedge fund managers earn – in 2006 the top three earned over $1 billion each.
Philip Coggan writes about financial markets for The Economist having previously worked for twenty years as the investment editor of the Financial Times.
Though most people have heard of hedge funds, few are clear about what exactly they are, or what they do. This guide, written by one of Britain’s most experienced and highly regarded financial journalists, provides a clear survey of the industry for all those who think they should know about hedge funds. £20.00 192pp Demy hbk ISBN: 978 1 84668 055 7 Finance
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Pablo Triana
Guide to Derivatives A clear and authoritative explanation of the sophisticated world of derivatives Between 1999 and 2004 the value of contracts traded on options exchanges worldwide soared from $62 trillion to $312 trillion, making derivatives the world’s largest financial market. But derivatives are sophisticated products, and a lack of understanding can result in big losses. Pablo Triana has worked in derivatives trading in New York, London and Madrid. Now a professor at Instituto de Empresa business school in Madrid, he is also a regular contributor to newspapers such as the Financial Times.
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This guide explains derivatives to the non-specialist – what they are, how they work, their uses and their risks. It is written in plain English and is supported by an easy reference glossary of terms. £20.00 288pp Demy hbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 847 9 Finance and Business
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John Tennent
Finance: A Guide for Managers Business finance explained in a practical and accessible way Managers are expected to make decisions fully understanding the financial consequences, but in the absence of formal training few people are prepared to deal with the responsibility of management reports, budgets and capital proposals. This book is a clear and practical guide to understanding and managing financial responsibilities, explaining how to assemble a budget, read variances on a report and construct a proposal to invest in new equipment. By walking the reader through the things that managers actually do, the book will help them understand financial jargon, financial statements, management accounts, performance measures, budgeting, costing, pricing, decision-making and investment appraisal.
John Tennent is co-author of the Guide to Business Modelling, and an accountant with over twenty years’ experience with firms such as Unilever, BAE, Kraft, BT and EMI.
£20.00 256pp Demy hbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 809 7 Business and Management
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‘On only two scores can The Economist hope to outdo its rivals consistently. One is the quality of its analysis and the other is the quality of its writing.’ from The Economist Style Guide
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERS Robert Greene, the ‘modern Machiavelli’, distils the most important lessons from history, to help you get ahead. His complete ‘amoral series’ is now available in original and concise formats.
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Robert Greene has a degree in Classical Studies and has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines. He is a writer and a playwright and lives in Los Angeles.
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Now in concise format ‘Hollywood producers and rappers are following an unlikely but ruthless guru’ Sunday Times ‘It is translatable to virtually every facet of daily life … a rich mine of ideas and information. [Greene] has placed at our disposal a diverse armoury of historical wisdom in a readable and stimulating format.’ Scotland on Sunday
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Robert Greene’s next book, The 50th Law, co-authored with rapper 50 Cent, will be published in September 2008.
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‘Will appeal to all armchair megalomaniacs … a whirlwind tour of 3,000 years of power politics’ Daily Mail ‘Teaches you how to cheat, dissemble, feign, fight and advance your cause in the modern world’ Independent on Sunday
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‘What Greene does so masterfully in his book is to take us on a fascinating trip into the psyches of the great seducers and offer a wealth of strategies for those who might like to dabble in the murky waters of manipulation themselves’ Daily Mail
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INDEX OF TITLES 48 Laws of Power
Finance: A Guide for Managers
Robert Greene
29
John Tennent
29
Geremie Barmé & Bruce Doar
The Art of Seduction Robert Greene
12
20
Born to Run
17
Peter de Bolla
3
Catherine the Great
14
Robert Shapiro
A Certain Age
Tony Wolf & Suzanne Franks
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20
Clean
8
Duncan Fallowell
15
Cleopatra
17
Ian Patterson
9
Complaint
24
Pablo Triana
6
Complications
24
Philip Coggan
The Daily Mail Tax Guide 2008/2009 Jane Vass 23
19
Christopher Rush
22 5
Paul Ginsborg
17
St Peter’s 17
The Unwritten Laws of Business 23
ˇˇ Violence Slavoj Zizek
4
War 19
Robert Greene
22
Charles Leadbeater
Israel & Palestine
28
We-think
Bernard Wasserstein
Dr Livingstone, I presume
23
In Search of Kazakhstan Christopher Robbins
Democracy
13
St Pancras
W. J. King & James G. Skakoon
Inheritance Tax and Wealth Planning Wendy Walton & John Porteous
The Dragon and the Elephant David Smith
2
Stonehenge
Keith Miller
Hellfire and Herring 21
Atul Gawande
Snoop
Simon Bradley
Guide to Hedge Funds
Julian Baggini
18
Rosemary Hill
Guide to Derivatives
Joyce Tyldesley
17
The Shock of the Old
Sam Gosling
Guernica
Katherine Ashenburg
18
Rosetta Stone
David Edgerton
Going As Far As I Can
Lynne Truss
Queuing for Beginners
John Ray
Get Out Of My Life 10
Simon Dixon
16
Joe Moran
Futurecast 2020
Christopher McDougall
11
A People’s History of WWII Sandra Koa Wing (ed.)
Fourth of July
Atul Gawande
More From Our Own Correspondent Tony Grant (ed.)
The Forbidden City
Better
Clare Pettitt
25
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BACKLIST Business
32–35
General
36–41
Economist
26–27
Recently published
30–31
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