New Books Highlights January-June 2023

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The Value Flywheel Effect

Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud

By David Anderson with Mark McCann and Michael O’Reilly Foreword by Adrian Cockcroft and Simon Wardley

Today, every business is a technology business; every leader is a technology leader. As we enter this new era, organizations must learn to harness technology to drive innovation and power change.

In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson, Michael O’Reilly, and Mark McCann enable leaders to create an adaptive organisation built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to drive business results and navigate a migration to the modern cloud. Wardley Mapping and other sense-making approaches help organisations anticipate market changes and user needs. As the flywheel starts to turn, each small win builds momentum. This continuous momentum builds situational awareness, breaks new boundaries, and catapults companies to sustainable, longterm success.

Learn to understand and utilize the sociotechnical intersection between business, technology, and people with the Value Flywheel Effect. Give your organization the edge it needs to navigate future challenges and build maximum velocity.

David Anderson starting his career as a software engineer in leading telecom companies and has been at the leading edge of the technology industry for twenty-five years.

Mark McCann is a cloud architect and leader focused on enabling organizations and their teams to rapidly deliver business value through well-architected, sustainable, serverless-first solutions.

Michael O’Reilly is a software architect who specializes in arming organizations with the ability to develop ideas into world-class products by leveraging the capabilities of the modern cloud.

Achieve rapid acceleration and transformation with the Value Flywheel Effect.

IT Revolution Press

January 2023

360 pages

Paperback

978 1 9505 0857 0

$24.99 / £19.99

Crafting Brewery Culture

A Human Resources Guide for Small Breweries

By Gary Nicholas

Brewery operations are defined by their most valuable assets: their employees. The importance of recruiting, developing, and supporting staff members cannot be overstated; how you support and empower your employees makes a significant difference in the long-term success of the company.

In Crafting Brewery Culture, Gary Nicholas walks you through candidate selection and best practices for training new team members. It delves into professional development practices and how to build teams and fill in skill gaps. It shows how an operation driven by positive reinforcement, teamwork, and accountability can help employees learn from mistakes and grow in responsibility. It explains the difference between leadership and management and how to use each effectively to achieve a sustainable and growth-centred culture. Finally, the book’s appendixes offer working templates for everything from interviews to training plans, and performance assessments to goal setting.

Whether your brewery is looking at safety, quality, or financial targets, success doesn’t come from what you measure. Success is about what your team does every single day. Build a culture, build a team, and build a successful future.

Gary Nicholas has worked in a variety of leadership roles across every facet of the brewery industry, including at Bell’s Brewery and Surly Brewing. Gary is deeply involved in education, having been published in The New Brewer and delivering presentations at the Craft Brewers Conference, World Brewing Congress, and Master Brewers Association of the Americas. He is a co-author of the Brewers Association publication, Food Safety Planning for Craft Brewers.

Learn how to build a cultural framework that propels your brewery to new successes.

Brewers Publications

June 2023

pages Paperback

1 9384 6980 0

/ £73.00

Catastrophe!

How Psychology Explains Why Good People Make Bad Situations Worse

By Christopher J. Ferguson

Whether natural or man-made, local or global, disasters impact our thinking and behaviour on both a personal and societal level. Even rather ordinary crises in our personal lives like the loss of a job or the end of a relationship trigger overwhelming feelings. At the societal level, group anxieties coupled with the moral pressure to conform can send us all down the path to ruin. Why does this happen and how can we prevent this?

In Catastrophe!, Christopher J. Ferguson examines how pandemics, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and other events of mass hysteria impact our psychology and prevent us from ade-quately responding to, preventing, or learning from those calamities. From the rush to hoard toilet paper during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, to debates about the science behind climate catastrophes, and shifts after traumatic events like 9/11 and the murder of George Floyd, this book uses in-depth case studies to reveal how moments of societal upheaval affect the psychology of citizens. Though we have often failed to predict, respond to, and learn from catastrophes, we have nonetheless made remarkable progress. Ferguson concludes by offering strategies to help us make better choices during crises in our own lives and providing solutions for how society can better navigate misfortune in the future.

Christopher J. Ferguson is a professor of psychology at Stetson University in Florida. His research and clinical work explore issues of crime, violence, and antisocial behaviour. He has also researched and written on the impact of media on viewers, including violent video games, sex in the media, and suicide-themed media.

What happens to our minds during extreme calamities and how can we be better prepared?

Prometheus

January 2023

258 pages 5 B&W illustrations, 10 graphs

Hardback

978 1 6338 8795 4

$27.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 6338 8796 1

$26.50 / £19.99

Audiobook

978 1 6338 8920 0

$27.95 / £21.99

The Milestones of Science

How We Came to Understand the Universe

By James D. Stein

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

Comprising riveting and readable stories from along the path of scientific discovery in the fields of astronomy, the Earth, matter, forces and energy, chemistry, life, genetics and DNA, the human body, disease, and science in the twenty-first century, author James D. Stein showcases the most noteworthy achievements of our species in a compelling and comprehensive way. The Milestones of Science highlights key observations, experiments, luminaries, and theories from the astronomical work of Galileo, Newton, and Einstein to the modern discovery of the Higgs Boson particle.

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

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

The most noteworthy achievements of our species in a compelling and comprehensive way.

Prometheus June 2023 216 pages

Hardback 978 1 6338 8848 7 $27.95 / £21.99

Monumental Fury

The History of Iconoclasm and the Future of Our Past

By Matthew Fraser

Recent years in the US have seen Confederate monuments toppled, statues of colonizers vandalised, and public icons commemorating figures from a history of exploitation demolished. Some were alarmed by the destruction; for others, statue-smashing is justified vandalism against a legacy of injustice.

Monumental Fury confronts the long-neglected questions of our relationship with statues, icons, and monuments in public spaces, providing a rich historical perspective on iconoclastic violence. Matthew Fraser examines the implications of our monuments from the Buddhas of Bamiyan to those of Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Vladimir Lenin, and many more.

Above all, this book endeavours to frame moments of statue-toppling throughout history so we can better understand the eruptions of iconoclastic violence that we are witnessing today and how we can creatively integrate statues’ legacy into our collective memory in a way that inclu-sively enriches shared historical experience.

Matthew Fraser is a professor of communications and international politics at the American University of Paris, France. He is the author of In Truth: A History of Lies from Ancient Rome to Modern America, among others. He was educated at Oxford University, the London School of Economics, and La Sorbonne-Panthéon, and holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

A historical perspective on iconoclastic violence and new ways of thinking about our relationship with statues.

Prometheus January 2023 338 pages 32 B&W illustrations

Hardback 978 1 6338 8810 4 $29.95 / £22.99

The Story of Sleep

From A to Zzzz

By Daniel A. Barone and Lawrence A. Armour

Sleep impacts all areas of our lives, health, and overall well-being. We all need sleep, and most of us need better sleep.

The Story of Sleep is a lively annotated dictionary of topics related to slumber, designed to help people help themselves get a better night’s rest and improve their overall physical and mental health. Incorporating up-todate data, each entry reflects the fact that the world-ingeneral has changed, and new sleep technologies have been developed over the past few years.

Building on the success of their book Let’s Talk About Sleep, sleep expert Daniel Barone and expert writer Lawrence Armour provide the perfect format for those readers who crave a quick and ready reference for achieving better sleep habits and a sounder slumber every night.

Daniel A. Barone, M.D., is currently the Associate Medical Director of the Weill Cornell Center for Sleep Medicine, USA. He specializes in the evaluation and management of patients with all forms of sleep disorders including sleep apnoea, restless legs syndrome, insomnia, and narcolepsy. He is the first author of multiple peerreviewed publications on a variety of topics in sleep medicine and has appeared in several media pieces. His first book, Let’s Talk About Sleep, was published in 2018.

Lawrence A. Armour is a freelance writer/editor who focused on business, finance and medicine during his 20 years at Time Inc., Fortune and Wall Street Journal. He also spent 10 years in communications at IBM and American Express and is the author of nine books, Let’s Talk About Sleep with Daniel A. Barone among others.

An essential guide for anyone looking to get more and better sleep to improve health and happiness and function at a higher level in their waking lives.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

March 2023 152 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 6973 5

$28.00 / £21.99

eBook 978 1 5381 6974 2 $26.5 / £21.99

Palestine 1936

The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict

By Oren Kessler

In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in rebellion, targeting both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities that for two decades had midwifed the Zionist project. The Great Arab Revolt united rival families, city and country, rich and poor in a single struggle for independence. Yet the rebellion would ultimately turn on itself; British forces’ aggressive counterinsurgency took care of the rest, quashing the uprising on the eve of World War II. It was then that Zionist leaders began to abandon illusions over Arab acquiescence and the revolt saw thousands of Jews trained and armed by Britain, turning their ramshackle guard units into the seed of a formidable Jewish army.

Today, eight decades on, the revolt’s legacy endures. Based on extensive archival research on three continents and in three languages, Palestine 1936 is the origin story of the world’s most intractable conflict. In Oren Kessler’s engaging, journalistic voice, this book reveals worldchanging events through extraordinary individuals on all sides: their loves and their hatreds, their deepest fears, and profoundest hopes.

Oren Kessler is a journalist and analyst based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Previously, he was deputy director for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, Middle East research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, and Arab affairs correspondent for The Jerusalem Post

The story of two nationalisms and how the first sustained confrontation between them cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

April 2023 320 pages 20 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 4880 8 $26.95 / £20.99

eBook

978 1 5381 4881 5 $25.5 / £19.99

Gangsters and Goodfellas

The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run, New Edition

By Henry Hill, with Gus Russo Preface by Gus Russo

When Henry Hill entered the Witness Protection Program, he was certain that his criminal days had finally come to an end. He was wrong.

For over twenty years, Henry Hill lived the high life as a powerful member of the Lucchese crime family, a life immortalised in Martin Scorsese’s classic film GoodFellas

After his arrest in 1980, Hill disappeared into the Witness Protection Program. With this book, Henry comes clean about his last twenty years, filling in the gaps about his recent past as well as setting the record straight on his days as a wiseguy. At once hilarious, unpredictable, scandalous, and arresting, Henry Hill’s tale will destroy everything you thought you knew about the Witness Protection Program.

Henry Hill helped authorities bring convictions against over fifty major criminals, both in the US and abroad. While in the Witness Protection Program, his life inspired the best-selling book Wiseguys and the hit film GoodFellas He is the co-author of The Wiseguy Cookbook and A GoodFellas Guide to New York. He lives in the United States.

Gus Russo is a freelance author and investigative reporter who has contributed to numerous documentary films. He has written two previous books, Live by the Sword and The Outfit. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

“At the age of twelve, my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.” — Henry Hill

Lyons Press

May 2023

pages

B&W illustrations

Paperback

1 4930 7190 6

$19.95 / £14.99

eBook

1 4930 7336 8

$19.00 / £14.99

Bitches in Bonnets

Life Lessons from Jane Austen’s Mean Girls

By Sarah J. Makowski

Have you ever recognized Mrs. Elton in an office colleague? Or caught a glimpse of Lady Catherine de Bourgh in the neighbourhood crank? Over two hundred years after their creation, Jane Austen’s mean girls are still alive and kicking.

Bitches in Bonnets explores parallels between Austen’s world and our own, showing how modern social and behavioural scientists are just beginning to document and quantify what the author knew instinctively. Interweaving modern research and sociological experiments, Austen scholar Sarah Makowski looks beyond Austen’s texts for the sources of female aggression both during the Regency and today. Despite incredible advances in gender equality, women still face discrimination and bullying from creche to career. The cruellest assaults are those that are least expected—from other women. Hardly a woman alive has not experienced a false friend whose opinions and affection bring both positive and destructive consequences. The very ordinariness of Austen’s stories leaves room for us to identify with her flawed heroines and make peace with their enemies.

This book examines how six novels of quiet English Regency life still provide insight on female relationships after all these years and how Austen’s writing—and our reading of it—offers solace to millions of fans worldwide.

Sarah Makowski completed her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Aachen, Germany, and is a learning and development professional supporting individuals and organizations in achieving the right skills and competencies to perform their best. Born in Michigan, Makowski now lives in Germany with her teenage son, husband, and two cats.

What Austen’s characters teach us about female relationships today.

Prometheus May 2023 200 pages

Paperback

1 6338 8854 8

/ £16.99

Ultimate Guide to Trail Running

Everything You Need to Know about Equipment, Finding Trails, Nutrition, Hill Strategy, Racing, Avoiding Injury, Training, Weather, and Safety, Third Edition

By Adam W. Chase and Nancy Hobbs

Trail running combines all the health and fitness benefits of walking and road running with the outdoor adventure of such sports as hiking and mountain biking— not to mention the spiritual renewal from a day spent communing with nature. No wonder it has become one of the world’s most popular fitness activities.

The Ultimate Guide to Trail Running provides all the essential information needed, including finding trails and getting started; managing ascents and descents with ease; manoeuvring off-road obstacles; strength, stretching, and cross-training exercises; selecting proper shoes, clothing, and accessories; safety on the trail; and racing and other trail events. This fully revised edition includes all new photos, updated information on equipment, caring for the trail, racing, and organizing. New chapters cover sustainability, “Leave No Trace” practices, and diversity and inclusion in the outdoor running world.

Adam Chase, sometimes known as the “Shoemelier” or “Imelda of Trail Running,” has tested more than 1,000 pairs of running shoes. He is the President of the American Trail Running Association, Colorado Running Hall of Fame inductee, and has run more than 150 marathons and ultras. He also competed internationally as a sponsored athlete in adventure and multisport races.

Nancy Hobbs is the founder and executive director of the American Trail Running Association. She has been running trails and directing running events since the mid-1980s, and her articles and photographs have been published in such magazines as Trail Runner and Runner’s World.

An essential guide for the novice trail runner and an indispensable reference for the more experienced.

Falcon Guides

May 2023 288 pages 51 B&W illustrations

Paperback 978 1 4930 6675 9

$22.95 / £17.99

Mushrooms

A Falcon Field Guide, Second Edition

By Todd Telander

Mushrooms: A Falcon Field Guide covers 80 of the most common and sought-after mushrrom species in North America. Conveniently sized to fit in a pocket and featuring full-colour, detailed illustrations, this informative guide makes it easy to identify mushrooms in the backyard and beyond.

Each mushroom is accompanied by a detailed listing of its prominent attributes and a colour illustration showing its important features. Mushrooms are organized in phylogenetic order, keeping families of mushrooms together for easy identification.

Todd Telander is a freelance natural science illustrator, a wildlife artist, and the author and illustrator of many Falcon Guides. He lives in Walla Walla, Washington.

The essential source in the field, both informative and beautiful to peruse.

Falcon Guides

June 2023 104 pages 93 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 6558 5 $16.95 / £12.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6559 2 $16 / £11.99

Camping Activity Book for Families

The Kid-Tested Guide to Fun in the Outdoors, Second Edition

By Linda Hamilton

Camping Activity Book for Families offers up a wide variety of activities, games, crafts, songs, and good old-fashioned fun for parents and children to share in the wonders of the outdoors. Whether it’s creating pinecone art and giant nests or going on nature-themed scavenger hunts, observing the night sky, or playing flashlight tag at the campground, this book gets the whole family engaged in everything outdoors.

Fully revised and updated, with age-specific recommendations, activity suggestions for parents, family conversation starter sidebars, and kids-only tips, this book has fun activities for every minute and every age group.

Linda Hamilton is a full-time writer and Bay Area native who has taught high school English, drama, and college composition. She lives in Oakland, California. She is the author of Best Hikes Near San Francisco and Hiking the San Francisco Bay Area, and Camping Northern California.

Winner of the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award in the Children’s Interactive category.

New ideas to get the whole family engaged on a camping trip.

Falcon Guides June 2023 240 pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 6422 9

$24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6423 6

$23.50 / £17.99

The Kid’s Guide to New York City

Fourth Edition

By Eileen Ogintz

The Kid’s Guide to New York City lets the kids help plan the trip and guides you as you explore the city, neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Inside you’ll find kid-tested tips on where to go, where to eat, what to see, and where to get the best souvenirs. Along the way the kids will be engaged by sharing fun New York facts and cool tips. Awesome games will keep everyone busy as you crisscross the city on foot, by subway or bus, or in a cab.

Award-winning author Eileen Ogintz is a leading national family travel expert whose syndicated Taking the Kids is the most widely distributed column in the country on family travel. She has also created TakingtheKids.com, which helps families make the most of their vacations together. Ogintz is the author of seven family travel books and is often quoted in major publications such as USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, as well as parenting and women’s magazines on family travel. She has appeared on such television programs as The Today Show, Good Morning America, and The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as dozens of local radio and television news programs. She has travelled around the world with her three children and others in the family, talking to traveling families wherever she goes.

Before you plan your family’s next Big Apple excursion, get some help from a professional—and from your kids!

Globe Pequot

June 2023 160 pages

Part of the Kid’s Guides series

Paperback

978 1 4930 7044 2

$16.95 / £12.99

Europe by Eurail 2023

Touring Europe by Train, 47th Edition

By Laverne Ferguson-Kosinski Revised by Darren Price

Europe by Eurail has been the train traveller’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 co-authored this unique and comprehensive how-to guide in 1980. They also coauthored Britain by BritRail (Globe Pequot).

An indispensable resource for nearly 50 years.

Globe Pequot

May 2023 584 pages 21 maps

Paperback 978 1 4930 7028 2

$24.95 / £18.99

Punk

The Definitive Guide to the Blank Generation and Beyond

By Rich Weidman

Infused with a raw and energetic sound that stripped rock ‘n’ roll to the bone, punk rock transformed rock’s landscape in the 1970s, deconstructing bloated arena rock and leaving a lasting influence on the music and cultural scene in the United States and overseas. Punk was all about extending a middle finger to the status quo while pushing boundaries in uncharted directions.

Punk: The Definitive Guide to the Blank Generation and Beyond focuses on the origins of punk, ranging from disparate influences such as Dadaism, the Beat Generation, the garage bands of the 1960s, the Parisbased Situationist International movement, Jamaican ska bands, Stanley Kubrick’s dystopian masterpiece A Clockwork Orange, and the glam rock of the early 1970s. Rich Weidman highlights the best and worst punk bands, the greatest punk songs and albums, the most notorious concerts, and the rise of American hardcore punk. Legendary venues such as CBGB and classic punk films and documentaries like The Decline of Western Civilization propelled the rise of pop punk bands into the mainstream and every other aspect of punk subculture, including its lasting impact on rock ‘n’ roll and society as a whole.

Rich Weidman is a writer and editor from Florida. His works include multiple title in Backbeat’s FAQ series as well as several regional travel guides. He is also the editor of a travel blog called Wandering Florida and an avid hiker.

A most exhaustive treatment of the punk movement, its music, and its significant impact on attitudes and ideology, fashion and style, film, literature, and art.

Backbeat

You Started It

Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Most Notorious and Bitter Feuds

By Ken McNab

Many of the world’s biggest bands have imploded amid bitter grudges over money, publishing, ego-driven power plays, relationships, drugs, and “musical differences.” Iconic bands like The Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, The Supremes, The Clash, The Eagles, The Band, The Police, Cream, and Guns ‘n’ Roses all suffered rancorous break-ups that have cast long shadows over their legacies.

Musical—and real—brotherhoods such as The Everly Brothers, Jagger-Richards, Ray and Dave Davies, Simon and Garfunkel, and Lennon-McCartney fractured as private brawls transitioned into toxic, public blame games. Yet, as music lovers, we can’t help but be strangely captivated by the internecine warfare that is part of their shared antiquity, no matter the era you belong to—along with the timeless music they left behind.

Ken McNab’s You Started It charts these tales of rock ‘n’ roll excess and internal strife. He captures unique accounts from eyewitnesses of these legendary bands and their legendary breakups, bringing to life the divisions that produced domino effects of animus that followed them through the decades. McNab provides fresh takes on the human stories behind the in-fighting that saw a stairway to heaven become a highway to hell for the biggest bands of this or any other time.

Ken McNab is a sports production journalist with Scotland’s Daily Mail. He has held executive editorial positions with several leading Scottish newspapers. He is the author of the bestselling books The Beatles in Scotland, And in the End, and The Last Days of the Beatles. He is widely recognized as a leading authority on the Beatles and often contributes to radio shows, podcasts, and blogs.

Fresh insights into the break-up drama of some of the most iconic bands.

Backbeat

January 2023 296 pages 17 B&W illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 6780 0 $24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6783 1 $23.5 / £17.99

Act Naturally

The Beatles on Film

By Steve Matteo

The five films the Beatles worked on during their time together (A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) all represent key phases in the group’s career—some successful, some not. Subsequent reissues of the films have provided a deeper understanding of the group with bonus material, and the recent release of Let It Be on DVD and Blu-ray marks the return of Beatle mania since it was last available on VHS in 1981. A new documentary of the Let It Be film footage is being turned into a documentary by Peter Jackson, culling through fifty-five hours of raw footage to piece together a companion documentary to the original film. The Beatles have never done anything like this before.

Beatles expert Steve Matteo follows the fan frenzy around their films from the 1964 release of A Hard Day’s Night through the 1970 release of Let It Be to the reissue in 2022. Their earlier films parallel an unprecedented period in the artistic and commercial evolution of British world cinema. Matteo explores the production process, original theatrical film releases, subsequent VHS, DVD, and Bluray releases and bonus material, along with the US and UK soundtracks.

Steve Matteo is a music journalist and author. His books include Let It Be and Dylan. He has written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Los Angeles Times, along with many others. He worked in radio and often appears on Sirius XM Volume Channel and 21st Century Radio. He has lectured on Bob Dylan at the New School for Social Research and journalism at the University of Alabama.

An exciting inside look at the Beatles and their music-making process through the legacy of their films.

Backbeat

Paperback

Photo by Neil Martin on Unsplash.

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Supersize Crochet Animals

20 Adorable Amigurumi Sized to Snuggle

By Kristi Simpson

Tiny crochet animals are cute, but the larger animals in this book are just the right size for hugs and cuddles. Worked with bulky yarn and larger hooks, these stuffed animals hook up fast, and all the patterns are easy enough for even a beginner crocheter. Single crochet stitches form most of the pieces. Stitched or crocheted embellishments make each creature unique. Finished pieces range in size from approximately 16 to 30 inches. You’ll love the new friends you crochet, from a soft, fluffy llama or sheep to a frisky puppy, platypus, dinosaur, teddy bear, raccoon, turtle, and more. Make a favourite animal for yourself or a young friend. Once you make one, you’ll see how easy and fun they are to crochet, and you’ll want to make all 20 supersized amigurumi!

Kristi Simpson is the author of many crochet design publications, including the popular Sweet & Simple Baby Crochet, Adorable Baby Crochet, Ultimate Baby Crochet, and Crochet Stitch Sampler Baby Blankets. Known for her fresh and modern style, Kristi’s patterns have been published in magazines, books, catalogues, and online venues.

It’s time to supersize your amigurumi!

Stackpole Books

2023

Crochet Ragdoll Friends

36 New Dolls to Make

By Sascha Blase-Van Wagtendonk

Sascha is back with this exciting collection of 36 new ragdolls, including adult and baby pairs of animals and fantasy creatures such as dragons and dinosaurs. She’s also introducing friends from around the world, such as kokeshi dolls, Santa Claus and reindeer, kangaroos and koalas, giraffes, sloths, hedgehogs, flamingos and more. So many cute dolls—great for baby gifts and using up small bits of yarn—and they work up quickly for nearinstant gratification.

Favourites include:

• Llama mama and baby

• Sleepy bears

• Dachshund and puppy

• Leopard and cub

• Santa and reindeer

• Sloths

• Dinosaurs

• Dragons, and so many more!

Sascha Blase-Van Wagtendonk is the master of cuddly crochet. She is the author of Crochet Ragdolls and Comfortable Crochet Socks, and is also known for her crochet blog A La Sascha. She publishes a variety of crochet patterns in both Dutch and English.

Crochet a new best friend!

Stackpole Books

May 2023 168 pages 140 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 0 8117 7170 2

$24.95 / £18.99

Trafalgar

The Fog of War

By Seth Hunter

It is 1803, and Britain and France are on the eve of war. Captain Nathan Peake, still in command of the sloop Falaise, is recruited to coordinate a secret operation to land agents and weapons on the coast of Brittany and Normandy to raise the flag of rebellion. Instead, he discovers that the real plan is to kidnap or assassinate Napoleon on the road to his country home of Malmaison on the outskirts of Paris.

As Peake navigates the conspiracy and its aftermath, he finds his paths crossing with those of the legendary Sir Sidney Smith, American inventor Robert Fulton, and the Empress Josephine. But as the fog of war thickens, the risk of a chance encounter with someone who knows Peake’s true identity also grows. And all the while Napoleon is strategizing to divide his enemy and concentrate his forces on the weakest link. It has worked for the general many times on land, but will it now work at sea?

This is the story of the murders and intrigues, the myths and mysteries, and crucially the naval encounters, that preceded the most famous battle in nautical history. This is Nathan Peake’s Trafalgar, the true story of the events leading up to the campaign.

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.

“All I need is three days of fog,” Napoleon told his admirals, and they would have his greatest enemy at their mercy and the world at his feet.

McBooks Press

January 2023 280 pages

Part of the Nathan Peake Novels series

Hardback 978 1 4930 6467 0 $27.95 / £21.99

TITLES

A Troubled Course

A John Pearce Adventure

By David Donachie

John Pearce discovers that Madrid plans to desert the British-led coalition to join the enemy. In company with Lord Langholm, he has taken a Spanish treasure ship. But a violent Atlantic westerly forces them into a deep bay overlooked by Spaniards, who have created a trap with cannon on the heights aimed at the narrow entrance.

Pearce must take the lead, exposed to plunging fire, lucky the guns do not quite have the range. Then, having succeeded, he must get Langholm’s frigate and the damaged Santa Leocadia through the same bottleneck. Only quick thinking and an act of sheer inspiration make it possible.

His orders take him via Gibraltar, then on to Admiral Jervis, who hates him, to warn of Spanish duplicity. Finally, Jervis sends him to Bastia in Corsica, where the Viceroy, Sir Gilbert Elliot, is seeking to hold the island for Britannia in the face of Napoleon’s successes in Italy.

In night actions, outnumbered on land and sea, Pearce must fight the Francophile Corsicans, who are arming themselves for an insurrection. Will he succeed, or will he, HMS Hazard, and the Pelicans pay the ultimate price of failure?

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.

John Pearce finds himself behind enemy lines.

McBooks Press

January 2023

320 pages

Part of the John Pearce series

Hardback

978 1 4930 6888 3

$27.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7066 4

$12.99 / £9.99

Every Second Counts

By David Donachie

July 1940: A month after the evacuation of the defeated and battered Allied forces from Dunkirk, a German invasion of England threatens. In this thrilling historical ‘what-if’, Prime Minister Winston Churchill has resigned without naming a successor and leaders of Parliament are calling for an armistice with Hitler. Meanwhile, the Deputy Director of Counter-Espionage at MI5, Adam Strachan, faces his own daunting task. During a botched burglary, the fugitive Billy Houston commits murder and discovers his victim was in possession of Britain’s plans to thwart the German invasion. No patriot, Houston is determined to get the information to the right people and help bring about a Nazi-run Britain. Strachan soon finds himself pursuing Houston through England, from London’s blacked-out streets and seedy narrow lanes to the thinly guarded Channel coast and the Isle of Wight, in a desperate bid to stop the missing defence plans from falling into German hands. The clock is ticking, and Britain’s immediate future is anything but secure.

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.

A thrilling what-if story set in 1940 Britain.

McBooks Press

January 2023 330 pages

Hardback 978 1 4930 6064 1

$27.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7063 3

$12.99 / £9.99

ITREVOLUTION

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 Brewers Publications and to view the imprint’s full range of publishing, please visit itrevolution.com

Top authorBacklist highlights

Gene Kim is the founder of IT Revolution. He is a multiple award-winning CTO, researcher and author, and has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written six books, including The Unicorn Project (2019), The Phoenix Project (2013), The DevOps Handbook (2016), the Shingo Publication Award winning Accelerate (2018), and The Visible Ops Handbook (2004-2006) series. Since 2014, he has been the founder and organizer of the DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.

In 2007, ComputerWorld added Gene to the “40 Innovative IT People to Watch Under the Age of 40” list, and he was named a Computer Science Outstanding Alumnus by Purdue University for achievement and leadership in the profession.

He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and family.

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.

The Value Flywheel Effect

Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud

By David Anderson with Mark McCann and Michael O’Reilly Foreword by Adrian Cockcroft and Simon Wardley

Today, every business is a technology business; every leader is a technology leader. As we enter this new era, organizations must learn to harness technology to drive innovation and power change.

In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson, Michael O’Reilly, and Mark McCann enable leaders to create an adaptive organisation built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to drive business results and navigate a migration to the modern cloud. Wardley Mapping and other sense-making approaches help organisations anticipate market changes and user needs. As the flywheel starts to turn, each small win builds momentum. This continuous momentum builds situational awareness, breaks new boundaries, and catapults companies to sustainable, longterm success.

Learn to understand and utilize the sociotechnical intersection between business, technology, and people with the Value Flywheel Effect. Give your organization the edge it needs to navigate future challenges and build maximum velocity.

David Anderson starting his career as a software engineer in leading telecom companies and has been at the leading edge of the technology industry for twenty-five years.

Mark McCann is a cloud architect and leader focused on enabling organizations and their teams to rapidly deliver business value through well-architected, sustainable, serverless-first solutions.

Michael O’Reilly is a software architect who specializes in arming organizations with the ability to develop ideas into world-class products by leveraging the capabilities of the modern cloud.

Achieve rapid acceleration and transformation with the Value Flywheel Effect.

IT Revolution Press

January 2023

360 pages

Paperback

978 1 9505 0857 0

$24.99 / £19.99

The Unhackable Internet

How Rebuilding Cyberspace Can Create Real Security and Prevent Financial Collapse

By Thomas P. Vartanian

Like most aspects of modern existence, more and more of our financial lives have migrated wholly to the digital realm. With the benefits of ease that our Internet allows us come numer-ous threats to national security, our money, and the systems we use to store and transfer it. Cybersecurity is one of the most formidable challenges that the world faces today, and the next financial panic is likely to be delivered to us through use or abuse of technology.

In The Unhackable Internet, author and financial services and technology expert Thomas P. Vartanian exposes the vulnerabilities of the many networks that we rely on today, as well as the threats facing the integrity of our national security and financial services sector. Recent cybersecurity failures have revealed the inadequacies of our current computing systems and the dysfunction of the bureaucracy that oversees them. Vartanian investigates the creation and history of our financial Internet and offers comprehensive solutions to the problems we face.

Thomas P. Vartanian has been involved in US financial services since 1976. He is the author of 200 Years of American Financial Panics and his articles have appeared in numerous publications around the world, including the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, The Washington Times, and American Banker

“The Unhackable Internet offers comprehensive and insightful cybersecurity solutions that just may change the Internet forever. It should be required reading every executive and policymaker.”—Roslyn Layton, PhD, Aalborg University, Denmark, and George Mason University, USA

The history of the financial Internet, its vulnerabilities, and how we can— and must—make it stronger and safer.

Prometheus April 2023 288 pages 6 charts

Hardback 978 1 6338 8883 8 $29.95 / £22.99

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

Words and Music

Confessions of an Optimist

By Stephen Rubin

From his earliest days as a culture-beat reporter, through a wildly successful four decades in the book business, to his latest philanthropic ventures, Stephen Rubin has witnessed up close the highs and lows of publishing, music, and entertainment.

Freshly graduated from New York University, Rubin landed spots in major newspapers as a freelance writer covering culture, pop and classical music, and Hollywood. This landed him spots in major newspapers and put him in the company of fabulous opera divas, pop singers, and other unforgettable personalities. Here, he shares his adventures with such varied and iconic figures as Luciano Pavarotti, Judy Garland, Burt Lancaster, Dimitri Shostakovich, and Gregory Peck. Rubin recounts how, after joining Bantam Books in 1984, he rose steadily through the ranks of the publishing business, taking readers behind the scenes of the publication of recordbreaking bestsellers such as John Grisham’s The Firm and Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. He spares no details or feelings as he tells of corporate missteps and personal feuds at the highest levels of the literary world.

Full of riveting detail, engagingly told, and generously leavened with insider dish, this is an unparalleled look at the culture industry from the man who’s seen it all firsthand.

Stephen Rubin joined Bantam Books in 1984 after a decade-plus career in journalism. Named president and publisher of Doubleday in 1990, he remained there until 2009, interrupted by a three-year stint in London as chairman of Transworld Publishers. He served as president and publisher of Henry Holt until 2020 and is currently a consulting publisher for Simon & Schuster.

A professional memoir from the publishing giant Stephen Rubin.

Applause

March 2023 182 pages

6 B&W illustrations, 26 colour illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 6510 3

$29.95 / £22.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6511 0

$28.5 / £21.99

The A-Ha! Method

Communicating Powerfully in a Time of Distraction

By Gabe Zichermann

Helps professionals of all skill levels connect and engage with distracted audiences.

Audiences today are more distracted than ever, and traditional forms of communication and public speaking simply don’t work. Communications expert Gabe Zichermann helps readers develop techniques to pitch, speak, or lead meetings with confidence and success.

Gabe Zichermann is an entrepreneur, author, investor, and leader of people. He is a noted behavioural designer and gamification expert whose theories and practices have been adopted by companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon, leading to significant revenue increases over time.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

March 2023 • 352 pages 14 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7221 6 • $32.00 / £25.00

eBook 978 1 5381 7222 3 • $30 / £22.99

Stoic Business Ethics

By Jennifer A. Baker

How did we think about markets before we used the metaphor of the invisible hand? And how do we think markets work today?

Philosophers from Aristotle, Mandeville, and Marx to current day business ethicists have had an influence on our everyday thought about business and ethics, but the result can be confusing. Stoic Business Ethics sorts through the array of explanations on offer when it comes to ethics and the market, examining each critically. By registering economic mistakes in historical accounts and ethical lapses in contemporary ones, a case is made for how we ought to think of ethics in business today.

Jennifer A. Baker is associate professor of philosophy at the College of Charleston, USA.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

May 2023 • 224 pages

Part of the On Ethics and Economics series

Hardback

978 1 7866 0696 9 • $120.00 / £92.00

Paperback

978 1 7866 0697 6

eBook

978 1 7866 0698 3

$39.95 / £31.00

$37.95 / £29.00

Photo by Headway on Unsplash.

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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

Top authorsBacklist highlights

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.

Crafting Brewery Culture

A Human Resources Guide for Small Breweries

By Gary Nicholas

Brewery operations are defined by their most valuable assets: their employees. The importance of recruiting, developing, and supporting staff members cannot be overstated; how you support and empower your employees makes a significant difference in the long-term success of the company.

In Crafting Brewery Culture, Gary Nicholas walks you through candidate selection and best practices for training new team members. It delves into professional development practices and how to build teams and fill in skill gaps. It shows how an operation driven by positive reinforcement, teamwork, and accountability can help employees learn from mistakes and grow in responsibility. It explains the difference between leadership and management and how to use each effectively to achieve a sustainable and growth-centred culture. Finally, the book’s appendixes offer working templates for everything from interviews to training plans, and performance assessments to goal setting.

Whether your brewery is looking at safety, quality, or financial targets, success doesn’t come from what you measure. Success is about what your team does every single day. Build a culture, build a team, and build a successful future.

Gary Nicholas has worked in a variety of leadership roles across every facet of the brewery industry, including at Bell’s Brewery and Surly Brewing. Gary is deeply involved in education, having been published in The New Brewer and delivering presentations at the Craft Brewers Conference, World Brewing Congress, and Master Brewers Association of the Americas. He is a co-author of the Brewers Association publication, Food Safety Planning for Craft Brewers.

Learn how to build a cultural framework that propels your brewery to new successes.

Brewers Publications

The Chicago Chef’s Table

Extraordinary Recipes from the Windy City, Second Edition

By Amelia Levin Photographs by Beth Rooney

Celebrating Chicago’s best restaurants and eateries with recipes and photograph, this new edition of The Chicago Chef’s Table profiles signature “at home” recipes from over 50 legendary dining establishments. A keepsake cookbook for tourists and locals alike, the book is a celebration of Chicago’s farm-to-table way of life.

Amelia Levin is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, Edible Chicago, and other regional publications as well as in various food and restaurant industry trade magazines. A certified professional chef, Amelia also develops and tests recipes for chefs and media outlets, including Oxmoor House’s Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast series. Additionally, she helps out at the Green City Market, Chicago’s largest farmers’ market. Visit her at amelialevin.com

“Chicago Chefs Table does an amazing job capturing Chicago cuisine, from street food to the fine dining institutions of the city. Use this book as a guide to experience all that Chicago has to offer.”—Paul Kahan, Executive Chef/Owner, Blackbird Restaurant Group (Blackbird, Avec, BigStar, Publican)

Chicagoans have long known it: Theirs is one of the world’s great food cities.

Globe Pequot

January 2023 160 pages 107 colour illustrations, 50 recipes

Part of the Chef’s Table series

Hardback

978 1 4930 4438 2

$29.95 / £22.99

eBook 978 1 4930 4439 9 $28.5 / £21.99

The Flower-Infused Cocktail

Flowers, with a Twist

By Alyson Brown

The flower lover’s favourite recipe book—an inspiration to celebrate flowers beyond the vase.

Alyson Brown offers a fresh take on traditional mixology, infusing the taste of over 60 different edible flowers with history and folklore. This book includes not only 63 drinks recipes such as for a Hawthorn Rose Cordial or a Lavender-Infused Gin but also tips on building your home bar and sourcing edible flowers.

Alyson Brown founded Wild Folk Flower Apothecary in 2017 to share her love of flowers with the world. She worked with the Central Oregon Wildflower Show, host workshops weaving intentions of flowers into botanical creations, designs flower crowns, and mixes flower-infused cocktails.

Globe Pequot

February 2023 • 188 pages 80 colour illustrations, 63 recipes

Hardback

978 1 4930 7314 6 • $29.95 / £

eBook

978 1 4930 7315 3 • $28.5 / £21.99

The Story Behind the Smile

By Lynn McMahon

How Eat’n Park and the round sugar cookie became an icon.

The Story Behind the Smile paints a vivid picture of the evolution of a 75-year-old family-oriented community company. From its beginnings as a carhop restaurant to today’s multi-dimensional hospitality company operating throughout the eastern United States, Eat’n Park has blended food and business savvy with a genuine concern for people to become one of the nation’s most admired and successful businesses.

Lynn McMahon is an award-winning writer living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Globe Pequot

April 2023 • 200 pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 7426 6 • $27.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7427 3 • $26.50 / £19.99

Authoritative books of the highest quality, on a diverse range of subjects

Stackpole Books is a trade book publisher with a proud 90-year history of publishing titles in the categories of Outdoors, Craft and Military History.

Strong in Fly Fishing, Nature Guides, Civil War and World War II History, Military Reference and Specialty Crafts and Hobbies, we publish deep in our niche areas, releasing 60 new titles a year and maintaining a solid backlist of 1,500 titles. Founded in the late 1920s by the Stackpole family, the company grew under the leadership of three generations of Stackpoles.

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

Top authorsBacklist highlights

Simeon II of Bulgaria was the last tsar of Bulgaria from 1943 to 1946, and later its prime minister from 2001 to 2005. In exile, he attended the Lycée Français in Madrid and then the Valley Forge Military Academy near Philadelphia. After a career in business, he returned to Bulgaria after the fall of communism and was elected prime minister.

Phil Gioia served two combat tours in Vietnam between 1968 and 1970 and was awarded two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts. A graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, he went on to earn a master’s in foreign service from Georgetown and an MBA from Stanford. He has lectured at West Point and Annapolis, published articles in the Journal of Military History, World War II, and Armchair General, and appeared in History Channel programs and in Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War documentary. He lives in Corte Madera, California.

Supersize Crochet Animals

20 Adorable Amigurumi Sized to Snuggle

By Kristi Simpson

Tiny crochet animals are cute, but the larger animals in this book are just the right size for hugs and cuddles. Worked with bulky yarn and larger hooks, these stuffed animals hook up fast, and all the patterns are easy enough for even a beginner crocheter. Single crochet stitches form most of the pieces. Stitched or crocheted embellishments make each creature unique. Finished pieces range in size from approximately 16 to 30 inches. You’ll love the new friends you crochet, from a soft, fluffy llama or sheep to a frisky puppy, platypus, dinosaur, teddy bear, raccoon, turtle, and more. Make a favourite animal for yourself or a young friend. Once you make one, you’ll see how easy and fun they are to crochet, and you’ll want to make all 20 supersized amigurumi!

Kristi Simpson is the author of many crochet design publications, including the popular Sweet & Simple Baby Crochet, Adorable Baby Crochet, Ultimate Baby Crochet, and Crochet Stitch Sampler Baby Blankets. Known for her fresh and modern style, Kristi’s patterns have been published in magazines, books, catalogues, and online venues.

It’s time to supersize your amigurumi!

Stackpole Books

Crochet Ragdoll Friends

36 New Dolls to Make

By Sascha Blase-Van Wagtendonk

Sascha is back with this exciting collection of 36 new ragdolls, including adult and baby pairs of animals and fantasy creatures such as dragons and dinosaurs. She’s also introducing friends from around the world, such as kokeshi dolls, Santa Claus and reindeer, kangaroos and koalas, giraffes, sloths, hedgehogs, flamingos and more. So many cute dolls—great for baby gifts and using up small bits of yarn—and they work up quickly for nearinstant gratification.

Favourites include:

• Llama mama and baby

• Sleepy bears

• Dachshund and puppy

• Leopard and cub

• Santa and reindeer

• Sloths

• Dinosaurs

• Dragons, and so many more!

Sascha Blase-Van Wagtendonk is the master of cuddly crochet. She is the author of Crochet Ragdolls and Comfortable Crochet Socks, and is also known for her crochet blog A La Sascha. She publishes a variety of crochet patterns in both Dutch and English.

Crochet a new best friend!

Stackpole Books

May 2023 168 pages 140 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 0 8117 7170 2

$24.95 / £18.99

Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend

19 Designs Easy Cute Critters to Legendary Beasts

By Megan Lapp

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

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

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

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

Stackpole Books

2023

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Learn to Crochet in 10 Easy Lessons

All the stitches and techniques you need to know, plus 28 patterns to make right away!

By Salena Baca

Salena Baca loves to introduce crochet to new future enthusiasts! From her many years of teaching, she knows just how to explain each step and anticipate pitfalls, and she has broken down the necessary skills into 10 easy lessons. Starting with the basics of how to choose yarn and hooks, she then teaches the basic stitches and how to put them together to create your very first projects. She teaches you to work in rows and rounds, understand crochet charts, combine stitches, change colours, and so much more! Lessons include fun and easy beginner patterns, 25 total, to practice your skills and complete pieces such as wraps, scarves, totes, baskets, table runners, beanies, and blankets. When you complete the 10 easy lessons, you will have all the skills needed to make any crochet pattern you choose!

Salena Baca is the author of many bestselling crochet titles, including Two Simple Shapes: 26 Crocheted Cardigans, Tops & Sweaters, My Crocheted Closet, Crochet in a Day, Crochet Market Bags, and Crochet for Christmas. An ambassador for crochet, Salena often coordinates efforts with other crochet designers to spread the joy of crochet far and wide. Salena resides in Bend, Oregon.

Start crocheting today with expert, beginner friendly instructions.

Stackpole Books

January 2023

pages

colour illustrations, 40 charts

Paperback

Crochet Tank Tops

9 Designs for Warmer Weather

By Sandi Rosner

With these 9 refreshing designs, you can crochet yourself fashionable sleeveless tops that fit your style. Each piece is perfect on its own or worn as a layer. You’ll find a wide range of looks worked in warm-weather fibres, such as cotton and linen, that are fun to crochet and easy to wear. These versatile designs work equally well with skinny or relaxed-fit jeans, leggings, shorts, or skirts, whether you’re dressing up or going out to play.

Sandi Rosner has been a professional knitter and crocheter for over 20 years. She has been a yarn store owner, Creative Director for Premier Yarns, and producer of the Public Television se-ries Knit and Crochet Now! She is currently a freelance designer, technical editor, and teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Crocheted fashion isn’t just for cold weather.

Stackpole Books

January 2023

pages

colour illustrations

Paperback

978 0 8117 7139 9

$11.95 / £8.99

eBook

978 0 8117 7140 5

$11.00 / £7.99

Lace Knit Shawls, Sweaters, Socks & Hats

26 Designs Inspired by Japanese Stitch Patterns

By Birgit Freyer

Lace for every day.

The 25 knitted lace patterns in this book are designed to showcase your stitches in pieces that can be worn anywhere. They incorporate Japanese lace stitch patterns to beautiful effects in pullovers, socks, shawls, hats, mitts, and more, in infinitely wearable patterns. Knit in neutrals, these pieces are easy to pair with items in your closet; knit in fabulous colours, they are show-stoppers!

Birgit Freyer studied design and has shared her patterns for 15 years now at www.die-wolllust.de

Stackpole Books

February 2023 • 152 pages 100 colour iillustrations, 45 charts

Hardback

978 0 8117 7098 9 • $29.95 / £22.99

eBook

978 0 8117 7099 6 • $28.50 / £21.99

Knitting Wraps in the Round

21 Inspired Shawls, Scarves, and Stoles

By Andrea Brauneis

Save yourself some purl rows and knit your wraps in the round.

Author Andrea Brauneis explains the process of knitting in the round in detail. Extra stitches and instructions are included in each pattern, making it easy to work these 21 gorgeous scarf and wrap patterns even if it’s your first time trying this technique.

At kindergarten age, Andrea Brauneis knit rugs for her doll house, and she has not stopped knit-ting since. More than 25 years ago, she hturned her hobby into a profession. She lives with her family in Munich, Germany. Find her on Instagram @strickzeit

Stackpole Books

February 2023 • 128 pages 125 colour illustrations, 16 charts

Paperback

978 0 8117 7045 3 • $24.95 / £18.99

Fraktur

Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Learning the Craft

By Ruthanne Hartung

Fraktur isn’t just for family trees.

The Pennsylvania Dutch are noted for the beautifully designed and hand-lettered documents known as fraktur. Leading fraktur artist Ruthanne Hartung adapts the craft to modern tastes and needs in this practical how-to book, with step-by-step instructions, lettering and colouring techniques, and a variety of projects.

Ruthanne Hartung was a fraktur artist for more than thirty years. She was a juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and was selected as one of the top 200 traditional American craftsmen by Early American Life magazine.

Stackpole Books

January 2023 • 104 pages 48 B&W illustrations, 59 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 0 8117 7135 1 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 0 8117 7136 8 • $23.50 / £17.99

Making Stained Glass Mosaics

By Robin M. N. Jones

Stained glass made easy.

This book introduces the beginner to working with coloured glass without the need for solder-ing tools and a dedicated studio. With just a cutter, grout, and glue, you can make gorgeous stained-glass pieces, from small pieces such as votive candle holders and flowerpots to win-dows, tables, and more.

Robin M.N. Jones has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Master of Creative Arts in Therapy from Drexel University, USA. She is a licensed professional art therapist and has worked as an art therapist, art instructor, and artist for almost 40 years.

Stackpole Books

June 2023 • 144 pages 260 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 0 8117 7078 1 • $24.95 / £18.99

The Stanley Model Shop

100 Years of Special & Custom Rules

By Scott Lynk and Phil Stanley

The Model Shop was a special department at the Stanley Rule & Level Company where all new products and custom and special rule prototypes were created and tested for evaluation by management and customers. The Stanley Company has produced hundreds of these out-of-the-mainstream products which have now become sought-after collectibles. Authors Phil Stanley and Scott Lynk have collaborated to document the non-standard rules made by Stanley as they explored market needs and responded to customers’ inquiries, orders, and modifications. Included are the rules made by Stanley in the 1876–86 movement to convert to the metric system and both the custom and special rules and the stock rules currently in the inventory of the Stanley Model Shop. Scott Lynk collects Stanley rules and is author/publisher of Stanley Special and Custom Rules. He lives in Vergennes, Vermont.

Philip Stanley has written four books on antique measuring instruments and patents and has appeared on Antiques Roadshow as an appraiser. He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.

A riveting collection of non-standard Stanley tools.

Astragal Press

February 2023 256 pages 49 B&W illustrations, 357 colour illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 7001 5 $69.95 / £54.00

eBook

978 1 4930 7002 2

$52.00 / £40.00

Building Boys

Raising Great Guys in a World that Misunderstands Males

By Jennifer L. W. Fink

Tips and tools for parents to help boys move beyond persistent gender stereotypes.

Making the world a safer place for women and girls is not the only reason to rethink our boy raising practices. Current culture harms our boys too— and they need (and deserve) as much support as girls. Building Boys is written by an in-the-trenches #boymom who intimately understands male development. Jennifer L.W. Fink offers ten rules that parents can use to guide their parenting choices throughout their sons’ lives.

Jennifer L.W. Fink has been parenting boys for two decades. An award-winning freelance journalist, author, and podcaster, she’s also the founder and creator of BuildingBoys.net

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

June 2023 • 272 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 5955 2 • $26.00 / £19.99

The P Word A Manual for Mammals

By David Hu Illustrated by Ilias Arahovitis

Refreshingly gender-neutral and inclusive in its language, this book will educate and entertain readers young and old.

The P Word: A Manual for Mammals is the definitive pre-puberty guide to the penis for young people. This easy-to-understand manual gives readers an overview of how and why penises work—and how to keep them healthy. More than just a boring anatomy lesson, it weaves scientific insights and surprising mammal facts together with accurate and engaging illustrations.

Written by award-winning bioengineer David Hu and illustrated by Ilias Arahovitis, this fascinating and ground-breaking work draws on both human and animal biology to introduce kids to an amazing organ.

Science, Naturally!

June 2023 • 54 pages

Hardback

978 1 9384 9278 5 • $16.95

Paperback

978 1 9384 9279 2 • $14.95 / £11.99

The world-leading publisher of 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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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.

Trafalgar

The Fog of War

By Seth Hunter

It is 1803, and Britain and France are on the eve of war. Captain Nathan Peake, still in command of the sloop Falaise, is recruited to coordinate a secret operation to land agents and weapons on the coast of Brittany and Normandy to raise the flag of rebellion. Instead, he discovers that the real plan is to kidnap or assassinate Napoleon on the road to his country home of Malmaison on the outskirts of Paris.

As Peake navigates the conspiracy and its aftermath, he finds his paths crossing with those of the legendary Sir Sidney Smith, American inventor Robert Fulton, and the Empress Josephine. But as the fog of war thickens, the risk of a chance encounter with someone who knows Peake’s true identity also grows. And all the while Napoleon is strategizing to divide his enemy and concentrate his forces on the weakest link. It has worked for the general many times on land, but will it now work at sea?

This is the story of the murders and intrigues, the myths and mysteries, and crucially the naval encounters, that preceded the most famous battle in nautical history. This is Nathan Peake’s Trafalgar, the true story of the events leading up to the campaign.

“All I need is three days of fog,” Napoleon told his admirals, and they would have his greatest enemy at their mercy and the world at his feet.

McBooks Press

January 2023 280 pages

Part of the Nathan Peake Novels series

Hardback 978 1 4930 6467 0 $27.95 / £21.99

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.

Every Second Counts

By David Donachie

July 1940: A month after the evacuation of the defeated and battered Allied forces from Dunkirk, a German invasion of England threatens. In this thrilling historical ‘what-if’, Prime Minister Winston Churchill has resigned without naming a successor and leaders of Parliament are calling for an armistice with Hitler. Meanwhile, the Deputy Director of Counter-Espionage at MI5, Adam Strachan, faces his own daunting task. During a botched burglary, the fugitive Billy Houston commits murder and discovers his victim was in possession of Britain’s plans to thwart the German invasion. No patriot, Houston is determined to get the information to the right people and help bring about a Nazi-run Britain. Strachan soon finds himself pursuing Houston through England, from London’s blacked-out streets and seedy narrow lanes to the thinly guarded Channel coast and the Isle of Wight, in a desperate bid to stop the missing defence plans from falling into German hands. The clock is ticking, and Britain’s immediate future is anything but secure.

A thrilling what-if story set in 1940 Britain.

McBooks Press

January 2023 330 pages

Hardback

978 1 4930 6064 1

$27.95 / £21.99

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978 1 4930 7063 3

$12.99 / £9.99

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.

David Donachie

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A Troubled Course

A John Pearce Adventure

By David Donachie

John Pearce discovers that Madrid plans to desert the British-led coalition to join the enemy. In company with Lord Langholm, he has taken a Spanish treasure ship. But a violent Atlantic westerly forces them into a deep bay overlooked by Spaniards, who have created a trap with cannon on the heights aimed at the narrow entrance.

Pearce must take the lead, exposed to plunging fire, lucky the guns do not quite have the range. Then, having succeeded, he must get Langholm’s frigate and the damaged Santa Leocadia through the same bottleneck. Only quick thinking and an act of sheer inspiration make it possible.

His orders take him via Gibraltar, then on to Admiral Jervis, who hates him, to warn of Spanish duplicity. Finally, Jervis sends him to Bastia in Corsica, where the Viceroy, Sir Gilbert Elliot, is seeking to hold the island for Britannia in the face of Napoleon’s successes in Italy.

In night actions, outnumbered on land and sea, Pearce must fight the Francophile Corsicans, who are arming themselves for an insurrection. Will he succeed, or will he, HMS Hazard, and the Pelicans pay the ultimate price of failure?

John Pearce finds himself behind enemy lines.

McBooks Press

January 2023 320 pages

Part of the John Pearce series

Hardback

978 1 4930 6888 3

$27.95 / £21.99

eBook 978 1 4930 7066 4

$12.99 / £9.99

Enemies at Every Turn

A John Pearce Adventure

By David Donachie

John Pearce gets out of jail but drawn into the Glorious First of June battle.

Free from jail, John Pearce is not free from the smugglers whose boat he stole. They want bloody revenge and are prepared to chase him to the ends of the earth to get it. The court martial papers that threaten to also damn Pearce are at risk due to the calculating schemes of Ralph Barclay. But the danger is only just beginning, for Pearce must undertake a dangerous mission in support of a massive revolt in the Vendée region of France. As high rebellious ambition turns to bloody disaster, Pearce faces real peril, climaxing in one of the greatest battles of the French Revolutionary Wars: the Glorious First of June.

McBooks Press

January 2023 • 256 pages

Part of the John Pearce series

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978 1 4930 6893 7

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A Sea of Troubles

A John Pearce Adventure

By David Donachie

Pearce is chased by smugglers but reunites with Emily and leaves for the Mediterranean.

1794: In the wake of the Glorious First of June, Lieutenant John Pearce has pressing matters to attend to. He must undertake an urgent commission from Lord Hood, track down midshipman Toby Burns, and placate Emily Barclay. Meanwhile smugglers whose ship Pearce inadvertently stole are on his tail. And it is not only John Pearce who has his fair share of trouble. The triumphant Channel Fleet returns, but the battle is already the subject of controversy—and Ralph Barclay is accused of holding back from the action. Pearce turns the table on his enemies and sets off for the Mediterranean with Emily Barclay. He can only hope that his troubles will end along with his mission. But are they only just beginning?

McBooks Press

January 2023 • 238 pages

Part of the John Pearce series

Paperback

978 1 4930 6897 5 • $19.95 / £14.99

eBook

1 4930 7065 7 • $5.99 / £4.99

The Devil to Pay A John Pearce Adventure

By David Donachie

Pearce and his crew must face a superior enemy with a battle-damaged ship.

1794: Stuck in Palermo harbour, John Pearce and his trusty Pelicans repair the battle-damaged HMS Larcher with meagre funds. Once again, he finds himself protecting Emily Barclay, abandoned by the captain of her merchantman. When Pearce sets sail for Naples, he discovers disloyalty among his crew, who are suspicious of Emily’s presence and the troubles that seem to be coming their way. Sailing into danger, they encounter enemies armed with more speed and greater fire-power. Pearce has no option but to run until forced to abandon and burn his ship trapped in an Italian bay. Pearce must face a court-martial for his actions. However, his troubles are only beginning. Admiral Hotham, now in command, seeks to neutralise Pearce. Hotham contrives a deadly plan to send the unwitting Pelicans into mortal danger. Only luck and Pearce’s fiery thirst for battle can save them.

McBooks Press

May 2023 • 240 pages

Part of the John Pearce series

Paperback

978 1 4930 6178 5 • $19.95 / £14.99

A Divided Command

A John Pearce Adventure

By David Donachie

Pearce ends up in Italy and tries to save Emily.

1794: The Mediterranean is proving dangerous waters for John Pearce and his Pelicans. Having left his lover Emily in the Tuscan port of Leghorn, Pearce is detained in Naples. When he unknowingly delivers a letter promoting the shady and incompetent Admiral Hotham, Pearce finds himself entangled in a political plot that soon puts those closest to him at peril. When reunited with Emily, John Pearce faces a losing battle to maintain her reputation. Emily sees no future for herself with Pearce and leaves. Learning of her departure, Pearce sets off in pursuit. At the same time, he takes on a superior Barbary corsairs force that has targeted the merchant ship on which Emily is traveling. Outgunned, Pearce’s chances of survival—and those of Emily and Pearce’s crew—are dubious. And even if they can win this fierce battle, another threat looms on the horizon, as Pearce is not the only one chasing Emily.

McBooks Press

May 2023 • 224 pages

Part of the John Pearce series

Paperback

978 1 4930 6181 5 • $19.95 / £14.99

The Vatican Candidate

A Harper & Blake Mystery

By Paul Bryers

Aiden Blake, ex-Royal Marine, and researcher Hannah Harper follow a trail from the hidden bunkers of Berlin to the mountains of Italy to solve how a present-day murder and a plot to kill the Pope are connected to a famous German aviatrix’s final flight out of Berlin in April 1945.

London-based Paul Bryers is also the author, under the pseudonym Seth Hunter, of the highly acclaimed Nathan Peake Novels: a series of naval adventures set against the canvas of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. One of Bryers’ 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.

McBooks Press

June 2023

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The Burning Sky A Roads to War Novel

By David Donachie

1935: Cal Jardine is a soldier of fortune. Forced to leave Hamburg, where he has been helping Jews flee the Nazis, he is recruited by a secretive British committee to smuggle guns to Abyssinia, a country threatened by Italian invasion. But first Jardine must procure the weapons from Romania, a country full of treacherous locals as well as German agents seeking his arrest. By sleight of hand, he contrives to steal the weapons he wanted to buy before escaping the country, leaving both the Romanians and Germans floundering. Taken to the Horn of Africa, the arms are then transported into the hands of the Ethiopian Army. But the Ethiopians are ill-equipped to face a modern Italian army. Trained for war, can Jardine simply walk away? Or will he be drawn into a bloody conflict against massive odds, and manage to save those who now depend on him?

McBooks Press

April 2023

360 pages

of the Roads to War series

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A Broken Land A Roads to War Novel

By David Donachie

1936: When a favour to a friend leaves Cal Jardine caught up in the Spanish Civil War, he finds himself with an interesting assortment of fighters. His new compatriots are a group of athletes in Barcelona for the People’s Olympiad. Together, they make an effective team and are primed for the fight; however, with a communist fanatic in the ranks, trouble is brewing. Even worse, a murderous betrayal lies ahead which threatens not just the fight, but Jardine himself. From the street battles of Barcelona to the fighting in the countryside, Jardine finds action as well as friendship—but will he have suitable revenge on his betrayer?

McBooks Press

May 2023 • 256 pages

Part of the Roads to War series

Paperback

978 1 4930 7359 7 • $19.95 / £14.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7360 3 • $5.99 / £4.99

A Bitter Field A Roads to War Novel

By David Donachie

1938: While Hitler sets his sights on the Sudetenland, not everyone in Britain is willing to appease him. Convinced that the Fuhrer’s land-hunger is insatiable, the head of the SIS recruits Cal Jardine to help him prove that Czechoslovakia is threatened with invasion. As jealousy and mutual suspicions within secret service ranks make it impossible for Jardine to tell friend from foe, he rediscovers old friends of dubious loyalty and makes new enemies of untested ruthless-ness. This is the final instalment in Ludlow’s sweeping series set in the pre-WWII European powder-keg.

McBooks Press

June 2023 • 328 pages

Part of the Roads to War series

Paperback

978 1 4930 7361 0 • $19.95 / £14.99

eBook 978 1 4930 7362 7 • $5.99 / £4.99

Seeing through the Smoke

A Cannabis Specialist Untangles the Truth About Marijuana

By Peter Grinspoon Foreword by Andrew Weil

Depending on which doctor you speak with, or which websites you read, cannabis could be an appealing, lowrisk medicine or an insidiously addictive drug rotting the brains of our youth. This dissonance confuses young people, distressed patients, and paralyzes politicians, all while inviting dubious sources of information and resulting in uninformed choices, enhanced polarisa-tion, and a fragmented policy.

Seeing Through the Smoke is an unflinching examination at the grossly misunderstood drug that uses data-driven medical science and a critical historical perspective to reveal the truth behind cannabis. Moving through an illuminating tour of the social history and the medical science behind cannabis, Grinspoon unpacks the layers of disinformation left by a sordid history of government propaganda, racial suppression, and indifference from the medical community to answer society’s pressing questions about cannabis. By focusing on the most critical purported harms and the most cited medical benefits, this book will help patients, parents, doctors, health experts, regulators, and politicians move beyond biased perceptions and arrive at a shared reality towards cannabis.

Peter Grinspoon, M.D., is a primary care physician and cannabis specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, USA. He is a certified Health and Wellness Coach as well as a board member of the advocacy group Doctors for Cannabis Regulation and regularly appears as an expert on national television and radio programmes.

A balanced and measured investigation of the pros and cons of cannabis.

Prometheus

June 2023

360 pages

Hardback

978 1 6338 8846 3

$29.95 / £22.99

The Story of Sleep

From A to Zzzz

By Daniel A. Barone and Lawrence A. Armour

Sleep impacts all areas of our lives, health, and overall well-being. We all need sleep, and most of us need better sleep.

The Story of Sleep is a lively annotated dictionary of topics related to slumber, designed to help people help themselves get a better night’s rest and improve their overall physical and mental health. Incorporating up-todate data, each entry reflects the fact that the world-ingeneral has changed, and new sleep technologies have been developed over the past few years.

Building on the success of their book Let’s Talk About Sleep, sleep expert Daniel Barone and expert writer Lawrence Armour provide the perfect format for those readers who crave a quick and ready reference for achieving better sleep habits and a sounder slumber every night.

Daniel A. Barone, M.D., is currently the Associate Medical Director of the Weill Cornell Center for Sleep Medicine, USA. He specializes in the evaluation and management of patients with all forms of sleep disorders including sleep apnoea, restless legs syndrome, insomnia, and narcolepsy. He is the first author of multiple peerreviewed publications on a variety of topics in sleep medicine and has appeared in several media pieces. His first book, Let’s Talk About Sleep, was published in 2018.

Lawrence A. Armour is a freelance writer/editor who focused on business, finance and medicine during his 20 years at Time Inc., Fortune and Wall Street Journal. He also spent 10 years in communications at IBM and American Express and is the author of nine books, Let’s Talk About Sleep with Daniel A. Barone among others.

An essential guide for anyone looking to get more and better sleep to improve health and happiness and function at a higher level in their waking lives.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

March 2023 152 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 6973 5

$28.00 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 5381 6974 2 $26.5 / £21.99

Senseless Secrets

The Failures of U.S. Military Intelligence from the Revolution to Afghanistan

By Michael Lee Lanning

From the War for Independence to the War on Terror, American military intelligence has often failed, costing needless casualties and squandering money and materiel as well as prestige—and all too often it has failed to learn from its mistakes. Senseless Secrets covers more than 200 years of intelligence breakdowns in every American war, including not only how intelligence has been wrong, but also how good intel has failed to make it to battlefield commanders, how spies and traitors have infiltrated the military intelligence community, and more.

Here are stories of Benedict Arnold’s turn in the Revolution, George McClellan’s reliance on the Pinkertons’ inflated estimates of enemy strengths in the Civil War, Custer’s flawed intelligence prior to the Little Bighorn, the controversy over Pearl Harbor, the surprise German attack that started the Battle of the Bulge, the failure to convey useful intelligence to small-unit commanders in Vietnam, overestimates of Iraqi strength during Operation Desert Storm, the bad intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s supposed nuclear arsenal in 2002-03, and the chaos surrounding the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

Michael Lee Lanning served more than twenty years in the US Army, where he commanded an infantry platoon, a recon platoon, and a rifle company in Vietnam and went on to serve as public-affairs officer for Norman Schwarzkopf. He has appeared on NPR, CBS, and the History Channel and has written more than twenty-five books. His previous books include the classic Vietnam, 1969-1970, which the New York Times called “one of the most honest and horrifying accounts of a combat soldier’s life to come out of the Vietnam War.” With Stackpole, he has published Tours of Duty: Vietnam War Stories, Inside Force Recon: Recon Marines in Vietnam, The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson, and The Blister Club

A military history of the United States through its intelligence operations.

Stackpole Books

January 2023

368 pages 12 maps

Hardback

978 0 8117 7193 1

$29.95 / £22.99

eBook

978 0 8117 7210 5

$28.50 / £21.99

Palestine 1936

The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict

By Oren Kessler

In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in rebellion, targeting both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities that for two decades had midwifed the Zionist project. The Great Arab Revolt united rival families, city and country, rich and poor in a single struggle for independence. Yet the rebellion would ultimately turn on itself; British forces’ aggressive counterinsurgency took care of the rest, quashing the uprising on the eve of World War II. It was then that Zionist leaders began to abandon illusions over Arab acquiescence and the revolt saw thousands of Jews trained and armed by Britain, turning their ramshackle guard units into the seed of a formidable Jewish army.

Today, eight decades on, the revolt’s legacy endures. Based on extensive archival research on three continents and in three languages, Palestine 1936 is the origin story of the world’s most intractable conflict. In Oren Kessler’s engaging, journalistic voice, this book reveals worldchanging events through extraordinary individuals on all sides: their loves and their hatreds, their deepest fears, and profoundest hopes.

Oren Kessler is a journalist and analyst based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Previously, he was deputy director for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, Middle East research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, and Arab affairs correspondent for The Jerusalem Post

The story of two nationalisms and how the first sustained confrontation between them cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

April 2023 320 pages 20 B&W illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 4880 8 $26.95 / £20.99

eBook 978 1 5381 4881 5 $25.5 / £19.99

Monumental Fury

The History of Iconoclasm and the Future of Our Past

By Matthew Fraser

Recent years in the US have seen Confederate monuments toppled, statues of colonizers vandalised, and public icons commemorating figures from a history of exploitation demolished. Some were alarmed by the destruction; for others, statue-smashing is justified vandalism against a legacy of injustice.

Monumental Fury confronts the long-neglected questions of our relationship with statues, icons, and monuments in public spaces, providing a rich historical perspective on iconoclastic violence. Matthew Fraser examines the implications of our monuments from the Buddhas of Bamiyan to those of Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Vladimir Lenin, and many more.

Above all, this book endeavours to frame moments of statue-toppling throughout history so we can better understand the eruptions of iconoclastic violence that we are witnessing today and how we can creatively integrate statues’ legacy into our collective memory in a way that inclusively enriches shared historical experience.

Matthew Fraser is a professor of communications and international politics at the American University of Paris, France. He is the author of In Truth: A History of Lies from Ancient Rome to Modern America, among others. He was educated at Oxford University, the London School of Economics, and La Sorbonne-Panthéon, and holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

A historical perspective on iconoclastic violence and new ways of thinking about our relationship with statues.

Prometheus January 2023 338 pages 32 B&W illustrations

Hardback 978 1 6338 8810 4 $29.95 / £22.99

Comet Madness

How the 1910 Return of Halley’s Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization

By Richard J. Goodrich

Halley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial superstitions (or so it was thought), proving that Newtonian mechanics rather than the will of the gods brought comets into our celestial neighborhood. Despite this scientific advance, when Halley’s Comet returned in 1910 and astronomers announced that our planet would pass through its poisonous tail, newspapers gleefully provoked a global hysteria that unfolded with tragic consequences.

In Comet Madness, author and historian Richard J. Goodrich examines the 1910 appearance of Halley’s Comet and the ensuing frenzy sparked by media manipulation, bogus science, and outright deception. The result is a fascinating and illuminating narrative history that underscores how we behave in the face of potential calamity—then and now.

Richard J. Goodrich earned his Ph. D, at St. Andrews and spent twenty years teaching ancient history in Britain and the United States. The author of six academic books, he now writes about early twentieth century history. Visit the author at RichardJGoodrich.com

How humans behave in the face of potential calamity—then and now.

Prometheus April 2023 240 pages

Hardback 978 1 6338 8856 2 $27.95 / £21.99

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 lyonspress.com.

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Melanie and Don Fink of IronFit® have trained athletes on five continents to personal records and breakthrough performances.

The author of Be IronFit: Time-Efficient Training Secrets for Ultimate Fitness and Mastering the Marathon: Time Efficient Training Secrets for the 40-plus Athlete (both from Lyons Press), Don has raced more than thirty Irondistance triathlons, Ultraman, and other contests and has recorded age group victories and course records.

Melanie is Regional Council Member of USA Triathlon Mid-Atlantic, has raced 12 Iron-distance races, Ultraman, and other contests. She has age group and overall victories in triathlon, running, and open-water swimming competitions throughout the world. They live in Carroll County, New Hampshire.

“The Rest of Us”

The Rise of America’s Eastern European Jews

By Stephen Birmingham

Following “Our Crowd” and The Grandees, “The Rest of Us” recounts the immigration of Eastern European Jews to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Birmingham spotlights the successes of several of these famous immigrants, including Samuel Goldwyn, Benny (Bugsy) Siegel, Helena Rubinstein, and Irving Berlin.

Stephen Birmingham (1929–2015) was an American author of more than thirty books. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he graduated from Williams College in 1953 and taught writing at the University of Cincinnati. Birmingham’s work focuses on the upper class in America. He has written about the African American elite in Certain People and the prominent Jewish society in his “Our Crowd”/The Grandees/“The Rest of Us” trilogy. His work also encompasses several novels including The Auerbach Will, The LeBaron Secret, Shades of Fortune, and The Rothman Scandal, and other nonfiction titles such as California Rich, The Grandes Dames, and Life at the Dakota: New York’s Most Unusual Address

The last addition to Stephen Birmingham’s historical trilogy.

Lyons Press

May 2023 432 pages

Paperback 978 1 4930 7067 1 $24.95 / £18.99

Other titles in this series:

The Grandees: America’s Sephardic Elite

Lyons Press • August 2016 • 394 pages Paperback • 978 1 4930 2468 1 • $17.95 / £13.99

“Our Crowd”: The Great Jewish Families of New York Lyons Press • March 2021 • 416 pages Paperback • 978 1 4930 5775 7 • $24.95 / £18.99

Operation Tidal Wave

The Bloodiest Air Battle in the History of War

By Vincent dePaul Lupiano

A detailed account of how the US Air Force lost 500 men in Romania during World War II.

Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war, when 1,700 American airmen set out to bomb the oil refineries surrounding the city of Ploesti in Romania in August 1943. Success, they thought, would be a force in ending the war. Success instead was extremely limited: 500 airmen were killed, wounded, or captured, and the Ploesti refineries were operating again at full capacity a mere few months later.

Vincent Lupiano spent four years in the United States Air Force as writer, producer, and announcer at Clark Air Base in the Philippines and flew three combat missions over Vietnam, carrying a tape recorder and writing and narrating stories of his experiences for hometown radio stations.

Lyons Press

February 2023 • 272 pages 24 B&W illustrations, 1 map

Paperback

978 1 4930 6930 9 • $19.95 / £14.99

Hoover vs. Roosevelt

Two Presidents’ Battle over Feeding Europe and Going to War

By Hal Elliott Wert

How the US entered WWII through the lens of Herbert Hoover.

The debate over entering World War II before Pearl Harbor remains one of the most conten-tious in American history. Widely and deeply researched in an array of rarely used secondary and primary sources, both domestic and international, Hoover versus Roosevelt brings a fresh perspective to a time when the US was deeply divided over what now seems a “done deal.” Author Hal Elliott Wert abandons the old adage of isolationism versus internationalism in fa-vour of a more complex story of a transition from an older era of international relations to the modern era of total war.

Hal Elliott Wert is professor emeritus of history at the Kansas City Art Institute, USA.

Stackpole Books

March 2023 • 496 pages

17 colour illustrations, 51 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 0 8117 3972 6 • $34.95 / £27.00

eBook

978 0 8117 6970 9 • $33.00 / £25.00

Gangsters and Goodfellas

The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run, New Edition

By Henry Hill, with Gus Russo Preface by Gus Russo

When Henry Hill entered the Witness Protection Program, he was certain that his criminal days had finally come to an end. He was wrong.

For over twenty years, Henry Hill lived the high life as a powerful member of the Lucchese crime family, a life immortalised in Martin Scorsese’s classic film GoodFellas

After his arrest in 1980, Hill disappeared into the Witness Protection Program. With this book, Henry comes clean about his last twenty years, filling in the gaps about his recent past as well as setting the record straight on his days as a wiseguy. At once hilarious, unpredictable, scandalous, and arresting, Henry Hill’s tale will destroy everything you thought you knew about the Witness Protection Program.

Henry Hill helped authorities bring convictions against over fifty major criminals, both in the US and abroad. While in the Witness Protection Program, his life inspired the best-selling book Wiseguys and the hit film GoodFellas He is the co-author of The Wiseguy Cookbook and A GoodFellas Guide to New York. He lives in the United States.

Gus Russo is a freelance author and investigative reporter who has contributed to numerous documentary films. He has written two previous books, Live by the Sword and The Outfit. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

“At the age of twelve, my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.” —

Henry Hill

Lyons Press

May 2023

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1 4930 7190 6

$19.95 / £14.99

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1 4930 7336 8

$19.00 / £14.99

The History of the NBA in Twelve Games

From 24 Seconds to 30,000 3-Pointers

By Sean Deveney

From its early days as a physical, plodding game with franchises parked in outpost towns like Fort Wayne, Moline, and Rochester, to today’s international showcase sport, professional basketball has evolved dramatically over the decades. But the development of the National Basketball Association and its star players was not preordained. There were moments, both obvious and subtle, that steered the direction of the sport, whether it was Bill Russell’s swan song, a near-miss on Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant’s All-Star debut at nineteen, a LeBron James legacy game or a deep 3-point-shot by Steph Curry, these moments gradually brought us the NBA we know today, a scrappy league that was jump-started by a 24-second timer and will be defined by the 30,000 3-pointers its players knock down per season. Veteran NBA reporter and editor Sean Deveney explores the unique characters and backstories of 12 crucial games in the history of the NBA, while putting them into the context of their influence on the direction of the league.

Sean Deveney is an editor at Heavy.com with a focus on the NBA and basketball in general. He has covered the league on a national basis for 20 years and has interviewed stars from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Jerry West to Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant to LeBron James and Kevin Durant. He is the author of seven nonfiction books, including Fun City: John Lindsay, Joe Namath, and How Sports Saved New York in the 1960s, Remembering Kobe Bryant, and Facing Michael Jordan

12 crucial games for the course of the NBA’s history.

Lyons Press

January 2023 280 pages

B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 6665 0

$27.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6912 5

$26.5 / £19.99

Black Mercuries

African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games

By David K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon and Mark Dyreson, foreword by Lonnie G. Bunch III

In the modern Olympic Games, African American athletes have sought to honour themselves, their race, and their nation on the global stage. But even as these incredible athletes have served to promote visions of racial harmony in the supposedly apolitical Olympic setting, many have also bravely used the games to bring attention to racial disparities in their country and around the world.

In Black Mercuries, David K. Wiggins, Kevin B. Witherspoon, and Mark Dyreson explore the varied experiences of African American athletes in the Olympic summer games. Recounting the stories of such Black Olympians as Jesse Owens and Simone Biles, Black Mercuries shows that their superior athletic skills did not always shield them from racial the tropes and insensitivity spewed by fellow athletes, the media, spectators, and many others. Yet, in part because of these struggles, African American Olympians have been extraordinarily important throughout Olympic history, serving as role models to future Black athletes.

David K. Wiggins is professor emeritus of sport studies at George Mason University, USA. His publications centre on the interconnection among race, sport, and American culture.

Kevin B. Witherspoon is the Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair in the Department of His-tory and Philosophy at Lander University in Greenwood, USA, and focuses on the intersection of race, culture, and sport in the Cold War era.

Mark Dyreson is professor of kinesiology, affiliate professor of history, and co-director of the Center for the Study of Sports in Society at Pennsylvania State University, USA.

A full chronicle of the struggles and triumphs of African American athletes at the Olympics.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

February 2023 312 pages 19 colour illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 5283 6 $38.00 / £29.00

eBook

978 1 5381 5284 3 $36.00 / £28.00

The Black Athlete Revolt

The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter

By Shaun M. Anderson, foreword by Len Elmore

An examination of the Black athlete’s rise in advocating for social justice.

The Black Athlete Revolt is the first book to take a historical and contemporary look at how Black athletes have used their influence to move beyond protests and create substantial change for Black Americans. Spanning from the civil rights movement to today, this book reveals the ever evolving and important role of Black athlete activism.

Shaun M. Anderson is the founder and president of CSR Global Consulting and helps sport organizations communicate their Corporate Social Responsibility efforts. As a prominent voice discussing sport and social change, his work has been featured in Huffington Post, Washington Times, Black Enterprise Magazine, and others.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

February 2023 • 192 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 5324 6 • $34.00 / £26.00

eBook 978 1 5381 5325 3 • $32 / £25

Unsung Patriots

African Americans in America’s Wars

By Eugene DeFriest Bétit

The story of one of the last overlooked parts of US military history.

African American soldiers have made significant contributions to defending their country in every war throughout US history. The story of their service is vital not only for military history, but for all American history. And Gene Betit does it careful, exciting justice in Unsung Patriots.

Eugene DeFriest Bétit served twenty years in the US Army as a military intelligence analyst and German and Russian linguist. He has written books about the Civil War and African American history and served as docent at Belle Grove Plantation.

Stackpole Books

May 2023 • 464 pages 78 B&W illustrations

Hardback 978 0 8117 7234 1 • $34.95 / £27.00

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New York City Yesterday and Today

Exploring the City’s Tax Photographs

By Jamie McDonald

An unexpected history of New York City through the lens of tax photography.

In the 1940s, city officials employed a team of photographers to take pictures every building in all five boroughs of New York City for property tax assessments. Those tens of thousands of photographs collected by the Hall of Records now offer a fascinating look into daily life in 1940s New York City. Readers will marvel at the changes some neighborhoods have undergone, whereas some parts of the city have remained remarkably unchanged.

Jamie McDonald wrote, directed and hosted the Emmy Award-winning PBS television series New York Originals. He is a former producer at Fox News and an award-winning documentary filmmaker.

Globe Pequot

March 2023

160 pages

colour illustrations

Hardback

1 4930

eBook

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£22.99

Grit, Not Glamour

Female Farmers, Ranchers, Ropers, and Herders of the American West

By Cheryl Mullenbach

Meet a community of spunky, brazen, plucky, hardworking gals.

This collection celebrates the contributions of our foremothers who devoted their lives to farming pursuits. Some embraced their roles; others detested the life of a farm woman; but most would agree their contributions were minimized or overlooked.

Cheryl Mullenbach is a former history teacher and school librarian. Since her retirement several years ago, she has written five books for young people. Her work has been recognized by the International Literacy Association and the National Council for Social Studies.

TwoDot

May 2023 • 168 pages

B&W photographs

Paperback

1 4930 6049

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$20.50

£15.99

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Scoundrels

Political Scandals in American History

By J. Michael Martinez

A survey of US political scandals big and small.

Political scandals have become an indelible feature of the American political system since the creation of the republic more than two centuries ago. This book surveys both the most infamous scandals (e.g., Watergate and the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair) as well as more obscure episodes (e.g., the Daniel Sickles and Philip Barton Key II incident, and the Yazoo land fraud) in an effort to understand how these incidents have altered the course of American political history.

J. Michael Martinez is the author or editor of 15 books on American history and law including the Rowman & Littlefield titles A Long Dark Night (2016), Terrorist Attacks on American Soil (2012), Coming for to Carry Me Home (2011), and Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan (2007). He is a practicing attorney in Atlanta, Georgia.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

March 2023 • 256 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 3079

eBook

978 1 5381 3080

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£28.00

£26.00

Shame the Devil

How Critics Keep American Journalism Honest

By Wayne J. Guglielmo

How can the press help to create and sustain a more democratic society?

Merging history, biography, and a candid analysis of various critical points of view, Shame the Devil moves from press commentary in the bitter aftermath of World War I to the head-spinning paradoxes of the post-truth era. Author Wayne J. Guglielmo begins with Walter Lippmann, rightly regarded as the first modern press critic, and provides a chapter-bychapter pro-file and analysis of his successors.

Wayne J. Guglielmo is a former senior editor at Medical Economics magazine, where he won awards for both his feature and special issue reporting. He has also been a contributor to other print and online publications, including Newsweek and WebMD He received his MA in American Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

April 2023 • 308 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7481

eBook

978 1 5381 7482

$36.00 / £28.00

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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 backbeatbooks.com

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Mike Edison is the former editor and publisher of High Times magazine. His books include the celebrated memoir I Have Fun Everywhere I Go and the sprawling social history of sex on the newsstand, Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! Edison is also a noted musician who spent much of the 1980s and 90s seeing the world from behind a drum set, opening for bands as diverse as Sonic Youth, Sound Garden, and the Ramones. He has written extensive liner notes for, among others, Iggy Pop, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and has contributed to numerous magazines and websites, including Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, the New York Observer, Spin, Interview, and New York Press. Edison lives and works in Brooklyn. Pete Tomsett is an author and musician who also dabbles in videos. An avid Fripp fan for over forty years, he was introduced to progressive rock at an early age by his brother, developing a passion for imaginative music that goes beyond conventions and clichés. He lives in London.

Punk The Definitive Guide to the Blank Generation and Beyond

By Rich Weidman

Infused with a raw and energetic sound that stripped rock ‘n’ roll to the bone, punk rock transformed rock’s landscape in the 1970s, deconstructing bloated arena rock and leaving a lasting influence on the music and cultural scene in the United States and overseas. Punk was all about extending a middle finger to the status quo while pushing boundaries in uncharted directions.

Punk: The Definitive Guide to the Blank Generation and Beyond focuses on the origins of punk, ranging from disparate influences such as Dadaism, the Beat Generation, the garage bands of the 1960s, the Parisbased Situationist International movement, Jamaican ska bands, Stanley Kubrick’s dystopian masterpiece A Clockwork Orange, and the glam rock of the early 1970s. Rich Weidman highlights the best and worst punk bands, the greatest punk songs and albums, the most notorious concerts, and the rise of American hardcore punk. Legendary venues such as CBGB and classic punk films and documentaries like The Decline of Western Civilization propelled the rise of pop punk bands into the mainstream and every other aspect of punk subculture, including its lasting impact on rock ‘n’ roll and society as a whole.

Rich Weidman is a writer and editor from Florida. His works include multiple title in Backbeat’s FAQ series as well as several regional travel guides. He is also the editor of a travel blog called Wandering Florida and an avid hiker.

A most exhaustive treatment of the punk movement, its music, and its significant impact on attitudes and ideology, fashion and style, film, literature, and art.

Backbeat

Punk Revolution!

An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism

Edited by John Malkin

Punk rock has been on the frontlines of activism since exploding on the scene in the 1970s. Punk Revolution! is the most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement over the past forty-five years, told through first-hand accounts of roughly 250 musicians and activists.

John Malkin brings together a wide cast of characters that include major punk and post-punk musicians (members of The Ramones, Bad Religion, Crass, Dead Kennedys, Patti Smith’s band, Gang of Four, Sex Pistols, Iggy & the Stooges, Bikini Kill, Talking Heads, The Slits, and more), important figures influenced by the punk movement (Noam Chomsky, Kalle Lasn, Keith McHenry, Marjane Satrapi, Laurie Anderson, Kenneth Jarecke), and underground punk voices. These insightful, radical, and often funny conversations travel through rebellions against Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin and to punk activism that has taken on nuclear war, neoliberalism, modern warfare, patriarchy, white supremacy, the police, settler colonialism, and more. The result is a fresh and unique history of punk throughout the ages.

John Malkin is a musician, activist, filmmaker, photographer, and radio & print journalist. He is the author of Sounds of Freedom: Musicians on Social Change & Spirituality, and his interviews and writings have been published in many magazines including Punk Planet, Z Magazine, In These Times, Ode, Spirituality & Health, Shambhala Sun, Tricycle, The Sun, and Sojourners. He lives in Santa Cruz, California with his wife and son.

The most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement told through first-hand accounts.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

June 2023

350 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7172 1 $34.00 / £26.00

eBook

978 1 5381 7173 8 $32.00 / £25.00

You Started It

Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Most Notorious and Bitter Feuds

By Ken McNab

Many of the world’s biggest bands have imploded amid bitter grudges over money, publishing, ego-driven power plays, relationships, drugs, and “musical differences.” Iconic bands like The Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, The Supremes, The Clash, The Eagles, The Band, The Police, Cream, and Guns ‘n’ Roses all suffered rancorous break-ups that have cast long shadows over their legacies.

Musical—and real—brotherhoods such as The Everly Brothers, Jagger-Richards, Ray and Dave Davies, Simon and Garfunkel, and Lennon-McCartney fractured as private brawls transitioned into toxic, public blame games. Yet, as music lovers, we can’t help but be strangely captivated by the internecine warfare that is part of their shared antiquity, no matter the era you belong to—along with the timeless music they left behind.

Ken McNab’s You Started It charts these tales of rock ‘n’ roll excess and internal strife. He captures unique accounts from eyewitnesses of these legendary bands and their legendary breakups, bringing to life the divisions that produced domino effects of animus that followed them through the decades. McNab provides fresh takes on the human stories behind the in-fighting that saw a stairway to heaven become a highway to hell for the biggest bands of this or any other time.

Ken McNab is a sports production journalist with Scotland’s Daily Mail. He has held executive editorial positions with several leading Scottish newspapers. He is the author of the bestselling books The Beatles in Scotland, And in the End, and The Last Days of the Beatles. He is widely recognized as a leading authority on the Beatles and often contributes to radio shows, podcasts, and blogs.

Fresh insights into the break-up drama of some of the most iconic bands.

Backbeat

January 2023 296 pages 17 B&W illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 6780 0 $24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6783 1 $23.5 / £17.99

When Rock Met Disco

The Culture War that Saved Pop Music

By Steven Blush

Disco began as a gay, black, and brown underground New York City party music scene, which alone was enough to ward off most rockers. The difference between rock and disco was as sociological as it was aesthetic. At its best, disco was galvanizing and affirmative. Its hypnotic power to uplift a broad spectrum of the populace made it the ubiquitous music of the late 1970s. Disco was a primal and gaudy fanfare, an exclamatory musical passageway into the future.

1978 was the apex of the record industry. Rock music, commercially and artistically, had never been more successful. At the same time, disco was responsible for roughly 40% of the records on Billboard’s Hot 100, thanks to the largest-selling soundtrack of all time in Saturday Night Fever.

When most 70s artists “went disco,” it was the relatively few daring rockers who had the most impact, bringing their intensity and personality to a faceless phenomenon. Rock stars who “went disco” crossed a musical Rubicon and forever smashed cultural conformity. The on-going dance-rock phenomenon demonstrates the impact of this unique place and time. The disco crossover forever changed rock.

Steven Blush has written five books about rock music and his journalism has appeared in over fifty publications, like Spin, Details, Interview, Village Voice, The Times of London, and Paper Magazine. He got his start in the early 1980s promoting punk rock shows in Washington, D.C. and then moved to New York City in 1986, where he published fifty-two issues of Seconds Magazine through 2000. He wrote and produced the documentary American Hardcore which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2006.

The enduring influence of disco on rock music from the 1970s to today.

Backbeat

June 2023 272 pages 29 B&W illustrations

Paperback 978 1 4930 6389 5

$24.95 / £18.99

You Are Ketchup

And Other Fly Music Tales

By Kokayi

Music artists, as perceived by the music industry, are akin to a condiment—to be easily replicated, sold in high volume, and enjoyed by the masses. The message is blunt, honest, and necessary. Implicit in it is the reality of an ever-changing music landscape that requires the artists to adapt, and with integrity, lest they become forgotten.

It’s this essential idea that the Grammy-nominated artist and creative consultant Kokayi shares in You Are Ketchup With a harmonious blend of narrative and advice, DC native Kokayi walks readers through the golden age of hip hop to the current day, dispensing hard-earned lessons and illuminations from decades of producing and performing music. Kokayi is a teacher inasmuch as he is a musician, and now writes for emerging artists yet to achieve success and veteran artists who might have once had it but are not out. Using stories from life and career as a vehicle, Kokayi covers a range of topics, including art as a commodity and advice about defining your artistic community, knowing when your art is ready to level up, finding a formula that works, distinguishing your art from others, and more.

In a music world where an artist’s career can too easily become a tale of the past, You Are Ketchup arrives as essential reading for the multitude of creatives hungry for the wisdom and knowledge of a successful insider.

A Grammy-nominated artist and creative consultant, Kokayi is entrenched in the ethos of hip hop culture while colouring outside the lines of tradition. He is a board trustee of the DC chapter of the Recording Academy, a recipient of the 2018 Halcyon Artist Fellowship.

Essential reading from a successful music biz insider.

Backbeat

January 2023 212 pages

Paperback

1 4930 6119 8

/ £18.99

Pilgrims, Pickers & Honky-Tonk Heroes

My Personal Time with Music City Friends and Legends in Rock ’n’ Roll, R&B, and a Whole Lot of Country

By Tim Ghianni

A warmly remembered book recounting of history, musical adventures, and anecdotes that capture the essence of Nashville across a half-century.

This is Tim Ghianni’s love letter and nostalgic swan song, recounting the storied musical history of Nashville as well as the dramatic changes the city has seen over the course of fifty years. The Nashville of today—with one hundred newcomers a day and fresh waves of musicians making up a new modern soundtrack—is not the same city he made his home in 1972, for better and for worse.

Tim Ghianni has been a professional writer since 1974, when he began a thirty-four-year stint as an award-winning editor, reporter, photographer, and columnist for newspapers in Nashville and middle Tennessee.

Backbeat

May 2023 • 352 pages 15 B&W illustrations, 39 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 7215 6 • $29.95 / £22.99

Can’t Stop the Grrrls

Confronting Sexist Labels in Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono

By Lily E. Hirsch

A deep dive into the origins and repercussions of sexist labelling for female musicians.

Female musicians have long been the target of double standards. Lily Hirsch confronts the full range of this sexist labelling and shows how women like Yoko Ono, Courtney Love, Britney Spears, and many more have fought back, sometimes reclaiming these words and their own story through music.

Lily E. Hirsch is a musicologist and visiting scholar at California State University. She is the author of Weird Al: Seriously and blogs at insultingmusic.com

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

March 2023 • 208 pages 8 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 6906 3 • $32.00 / £25.00

eBook

978 1 5381 6907 0 • $30.00 / £22.99

The Jordanaires

The Story of the World’s Greatest Backup Vocal Group

As told by Gordon Stoker, with Michael Kosser and Alan Stoker

Much more than ooh, aah, and doo-wop.

The Jordanaires were the premier studio backup group of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Easy-going, talented, and thoroughly decent, they were the beloved confidantes of many of the world’s greatest singing stars from Elvis to Patsy Cline to Perry Como and Neil Young. In their sixty-five-year career, from 1948 through 2013, the recordings they sang on have sold an estimated eight billion copies.

Michael Kosser is a Nashville-based senior editor at American Songwriter magazine. His songs have been recorded by such stars as George Jones, Barbara Mandrell, and Tammy Wynette. Many of his songs have appeared on the national country music charts.

Backbeat

January 2023 • 280 pages 39 B&W illustrations, 15 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 6457 1 • $27.95 / £21.99

Lunacy

The Curious Origins and Lingering Effects of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon—50 Years On

By John Kruth

Delve deeply into the making of this iconic record.

With interviews of musicians, artists, DJs, and fans, music biographer John Kruth gets to the heart of the lasting importance of The Dark Side of the Moon Lunacy starts with Pink Floyd’s band history, leading up to the creation of their masterpiece and exploring what inspired the “sonic stew” of styles—a mixture of avantgarde electronic, jazz, and classical music all contributed to the timeless album.

John Kruth is a prolific music biographer. He has written multiple books and for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Wire

Backbeat

May 2023 • 256 pages 22 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 6716 9 • $27.95 / £21.99

Act Naturally

The Beatles on Film

By Steve Matteo

The five films the Beatles worked on during their time together (A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) all represent key phases in the group’s career—some successful, some not. Subsequent reissues of the films have provided a deeper understanding of the group with bonus material, and the recent release of Let It Be on DVD and Blu-ray marks the return of Beatle mania since it was last available on VHS in 1981. A new documentary of the Let It Be film footage is being turned into a documentary by Peter Jackson, culling through fifty-five hours of raw footage to piece together a companion documentary to the original film. The Beatles have never done anything like this before.

Beatles expert Steve Matteo follows the fan frenzy around their films from the 1964 release of A Hard Day’s Night through the 1970 release of Let It Be to the reissue in 2022. Their earlier films parallel an unprecedented period in the artistic and commercial evolution of British world cinema. Matteo explores the production process, original theatrical film releases, subsequent VHS, DVD, and Bluray releases and bonus material, along with the US and UK soundtracks.

Steve Matteo is a music journalist and author. His books include Let It Be and Dylan. He has written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Los Angeles Times, along with many others. He worked in radio and often appears on Sirius XM Volume Channel and 21st Century Radio. He has lectured on Bob Dylan at the New School for Social Research and journalism at the University of Alabama.

An exciting inside look at the Beatles and their music-making process through the legacy of their films.

Backbeat

June 2023 256 pages 25 colour illustrations

Paperback

1 4930 5901 0

/ £18.99

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All the Leaves Are Brown

How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart

By Scott G. Shea

The tumultuous story of how The Mamas and The Papas transformed from folk music wannabes to rock sensations.

Few songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as “California Dreamin’”. Scott Shea details how The Mamas and The Papas became standard-bearers for California counterculture, following their transformation from folk music wannabes to rock sensations and chronicling the tumultuous events that followed their unexpected success. Through interviews with former bandmates, session musicians, family members, and many others, All the Leaves Are Brown is a layered and revelatory tale of overnight stardom and its many pitfalls.

Scott G. Shea is a long-time radio producer who currently works on the show Seize the Day with Gus Lloyd on SiriusXM’s Catholic Channel.

Backbeat

June 2023 • 408 pages 20 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 7211 8 • $32.95 / £25.00

Moving Pictures

How Rush Created Progressive Hard Rock’s Greatest Record

By Will Romano

A definitive account of the album’s creation and legacy.

Rush’s record Moving Pictures changed everything: the trajectory of the band’s career and its impact on a growing legion of fans. Now, forty years after its release, Will Romano investigates the how and why behind this album that was a landmark not only for Rush, but also for the entirety of progressive rock and continues to inspire musicians of all walks of life.

Will Romano is the author of seven books, including the critically acclaimed Mountains Come Out of the Sky His work has appeared in a variety of publications, such as New York Post, Guitar Player, Modern Drummer, Sound on Sound, and VH1.com

Backbeat

March 2023 • 232 pages 24 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 6235 5 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6236 2 • $23.5 / £17.99

Addicted To Noise

The Music Writings of Michael Goldberg

By Michael Goldberg Foreword by Greil Marcus

The Best Of Michael Goldberg’s Interviews.

Addicted to Noise collects the best interviews, profiles, and essays Michael Goldberg has writ-ten during his forty-plus years as a journalist. From combative interviews with Frank Zappa and Tom Waits to essays on how Jack Kerouac influenced Bob Dylan and the lasting importance of San Francisco’s first punk rock club, Goldberg, as novelist Dana Spiotta wrote, “shows us how consequential music can be.”

Michael Goldberg is a journalist, novelist, and photographer. He has been interviewing and photographing musicians since he was seventeen. In 1994, he founded the first web music magazine, the award-winning Addicted To Noise, and was a senior vice president at the SonicNet music site, and subsequently at MTV Online.

Backbeat

January 2023 • 440 pages

41 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 6810 4 • $34.95 / £27.00

The Great American Songbook

201 Favorites You Ought to Know (& Love)

By Steven Suskin Foreword by John Pizzarelli

A carefully curated and cheerfully opinionated guidebook.

The Great American Songbook, that sprawling canon of popular songs, standards, and show tunes from the 1920s through the 1950s, is a foundational text of American pop music. Steven Suskin surveys 201 of the most significant selections, ranging from celebrated masterpieces to forgotten gems. Year by year, he puts songwriters and their contributions in their context and explains what makes each song such a distinctive treat.

Steven Suskin has written fifteen books and more than 1,000 columns, reviews, and liner notes for Playbill, Variety, and Huffington Post, and is currently critic and founding editor of New York Stage Review

Backbeat

June 2023 • 206 pages

199 B&W illustrations, 96 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 7094 7 • $24.95 / £18.99

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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 falcon.com.

Top authorsBacklist highlights

John Long is an acclaimed rock climber and author of more than forty books, including several in Falcon’s catalogue. He is one of the most prolific adventure writers out there and has authored magazine articles and instructional rock climbing books. John has also built a successful television and film career, producing the International Guinness Book of World Records television show before moving to feature films. The Sylvester Stallone movie, Cliffhanger, is based on one of Long’s stories.

Bob Gaines began his career as a rock climbing guide in 1983 and is an American Mountain Guides Association Certified Rock Instructor. He is the author of Advanced Rock Climbing and the coaauthor of Rock Climbing: The AMGA Single Pitch Manual, which is the textbook for the AMGA’s single pitch instructor program. He was Sylvester Stallone’s climbing instructor for the movie Cliffhanger

Ultimate Guide to Trail Running

Everything You Need to Know about Equipment, Finding Trails, Nutrition, Hill Strategy, Racing, Avoiding Injury, Training, Weather, and Safety, Third Edition

By Adam W. Chase and Nancy Hobbs

Trail running combines all the health and fitness benefits of walking and road running with the outdoor adventure of such sports as hiking and mountain biking— not to mention the spiritual renewal from a day spent communing with nature. No wonder it has become one of the world’s most popular fitness activities.

The Ultimate Guide to Trail Running provides all the essential information needed, including finding trails and getting started; managing ascents and descents with ease; manoeuvring off-road obstacles; strength, stretching, and cross-training exercises; selecting proper shoes, clothing, and accessories; safety on the trail; and racing and other trail events. This fully revised edition includes all new photos, updated information on equipment, caring for the trail, racing, and organizing. New chapters cover sustainability, “Leave No Trace” practices, and diversity and inclusion in the outdoor running world.

Adam Chase, sometimes known as the “Shoemelier” or “Imelda of Trail Running,” has tested more than 1,000 pairs of running shoes. He is the President of the American Trail Running Association, Colorado Running Hall of Fame inductee, and has run more than 150 marathons and ultras. He also competed internationally as a sponsored athlete in adventure and multisport races.

Nancy Hobbs is the founder and executive director of the American Trail Running Association. She has been running trails and directing running events since the mid-1980s, and her articles and photographs have been published in such magazines as Trail Runner and Runner’s World.

An essential guide for the novice trail runner and an indispensable reference for the more experienced.

Falcon Guides

May 2023 288 pages 51 B&W illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 6675 9

$22.95 / £17.99

Outward Bound Canoeing Handbook

Third Edition

By Johnny Molloy

Outward Bound Canoeing Handbook is a handy, illustrated resource on the fundamentals of canoeing, including solid, sound instruction on all aspects of canoeing, from types of canoes to equipment choices, paddle and on-thewater techniques, safety tips, and more. In partnership with outdoor leader Outward Bound, this book combines expert instruction with practical tips to ensure a fun and a satisfying canoe trip for your next outdoor adventure.

Outward Bound is the premier provider of experiencebased outdoor leadership programs for teens, adults and professionals. Outward Bound is a non-profit educational organization and expedition school that serves people of all ages and backgrounds through active learning expeditions that inspire character development, selfdiscovery and service both in and out of the classroom. Outward Bound excels in curricula developed for struggling teens, groups with specific health, social or educational needs and business and professional organizations.

Johnny Molloy is an adventurer and writer for various magazines, websites, and newspapers. He has written over 50 books on hiking, camping, paddling, regional activities, and outdoor ad-venture.

The essential guide for your next canoe trip.

Falcon Guides

May 2023

136 pages 96 colour illustrations

Part of the Outward Bound series

Paperback

978 1 4930 5308 7

$18.95 / £14.99

Basic Illustrated Animal Tracks

Third Edition

By Jonathan Hanson and Roseann Hanson

An information-packed tool for the novice and a handy reference for the veteran.

Whether you’re planning a trip or thumbing for facts in the field, Basic Illustrated books tell you what you need to know. Use Basic Illustrated Animal Tracks to discover how to identify animal tracks, read other animal signs, make plaster casts and tracings, practice observation techniques, participate in conservation projects and more.

Award-winning authors and naturalists, Roseann and Johnathan Hanson have worked as a team for over twenty years, exploring and writing about the wilds of North America from the Arctic to Baja, California. Jonathan is a correspondent for Outside magazine, and he and Roseann teach animaltracking courses for non-profit conservation groups. They live in Tucson, Arizona.

Falcon Guides

May 2023 • 112 pages

39 B&W illustrations, 70 colour illustrations, 34 maps

Paperback

978 1 4930 6711 4 • $19.95 / £14.99

Tracks and Trailcraft

A Fully Illustrated Guide to the Identification of Animal Tracks in Forest and Field, Barnyard and Backyard, Third Edition

By Ellsworth Jaeger

A classic work describing and illustrating the tracks of hundreds of animals.

Charmingly illustrated throughout, Tracks and Trailcraft presents a wealth of lore. In the crisp, direct style that helped make him a widely read author of classics on Native American lore and camping, Ellsworth Jaeger tells how to read nature’s signs written in mud, brush, and even water and sky. Packed with projects for both adults and children, nature lovers and amateur archaeologists, this book provides the tools of identification and will turn anyone into a “nature detective.”

Ellsworth Jaeger was Curator of Education and the Hayes Professor of Science at the Buffalo Museum of Science, USA, and an authority on Native American lore and camping. His other books included the immensely popular Wildwood Wisdom.

Lyons Press

June 2023 • 392 pages

500 B&W illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 7193 7 • $21.95 / £16.99

Mushrooms

A Falcon Field Guide, Second Edition

By Todd Telander

Mushrooms: A Falcon Field Guide covers 80 of the most common and sought-after mushrrom species in North America. Conveniently sized to fit in a pocket and featuring full-colour, detailed illustrations, this informative guide makes it easy to identify mushrooms in the backyard and beyond.

Each mushroom is accompanied by a detailed listing of its prominent attributes and a colour illustration showing its important features. Mushrooms are organized in phylogenetic order, keeping families of mushrooms together for easy identification.

Todd Telander is a freelance natural science illustrator, a wildlife artist, and the author and illustrator of many Falcon Guides. He lives in Walla Walla, Washington.

The essential source in the field, both informative and beautiful to peruse.

Falcon Guides

June 2023 104 pages 93 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 6558 5 $16.95 / £12.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6559 2 $16 / £11.99

Lipsmackin’ Cast Iron Cookin’

Easy and Delicious Cast Iron Recipes for Camping

By Christine Conners and Tim Conners

Lipsmackin’ Cast Iron Cookin’ is a collection of favourite recipes from outdoor chefs from around the world. The recipes are eclectic, always delicious, have easy to follow instructions, and are full of fun stories and antidotes from their contributors. Charming photographs of camp and cooking scenes are included throughout. The Conners’ cookbooks are more than a collection of recipes: they bring their readers outdoors.

Fun-loving campers, backpackers, and outdoor chefs, Tim and Christine Conners are the authors of 13 outdoor titles with Falcon Guides and have been writing outdoor cookbooks for over 20 years. At the invitation of Boy Scouts of America, the Conners served numerous times as judges for Scouting Magazine’s prestigious national camp food cooking contest. Their articles have appeared in Scouting Magazine, Boy’s Life, and Backpacker Magazine. Tim and Christine maintain the Lipsmakin’ Campin’ website and host a YouTube channel sponsored by MSR.

Tim and Christine Conners, bestselling authors of over a dozen outdoor cookbooks, have added another title to their highly successful Lipsmackin’ Campin’ series.

Falcon Guides

June 2023

288 pages 24 B&W illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 6721 3

$19.95 / £14.99

eBook 978 1 4930 6722 0

$19.00 / £14.99

Camping Activity Book for Families

The Kid-Tested Guide to Fun in the Outdoors, Second Edition

By Linda Hamilton

Camping Activity Book for Families offers up a wide variety of activities, games, crafts, songs, and good old-fashioned fun for parents and children to share in the wonders of the outdoors. Whether it’s creating pinecone art and giant nests or going on nature-themed scavenger hunts, observing the night sky, or playing flashlight tag at the campground, this book gets the whole family engaged in everything outdoors.

Fully revised and updated, with age-specific recommendations, activity suggestions for parents, family conversation starter sidebars, and kids-only tips, this book has fun activities for every minute and every age group.

Linda Hamilton is a full-time writer and Bay Area native who has taught high school English, drama, and college composition. She lives in Oakland, California. She is the author of Best Hikes Near San Francisco and Hiking the San Francisco Bay Area, and Camping Northern California

Winner of the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award in the Children’s Interactive category.

New ideas to get the whole family engaged on a camping trip.

Falcon Guides

June 2023 240 pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 6422 9

$24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6423 6

$23.50 / £17.99

Casting Seaward

By Steve Ramirez, foreword by Kirk Deeter, illustrated by Bob White

In Casting Seaward, author, naturalist, and educator Steve Ramirez expands beyond the geographical scope of his first two books by traveling thousands of miles by plane, motor vehicle, boat, and foot pursuing the native gamefish of North America’s salt and brackish water habitats. This journey includes following anadromous fish like salmon from the ocean’s depth to the shallowest tributaries of Alaskan rivers, and following rivers and streams from their freshwater sources to their brackish water deltas.

Steve Ramirez is a writer, educator, master naturalist, philosopher, and outdoor adventurer who lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country. He has lived in and traveled across four continents chronicling the unique historical landscapes, human cultures, and natural worlds that are in danger of vanishing.

Volume three in Steve Ramirez’ series exploring North American waters. Lyons Press June 2023 • 320 pages

B&W illustrations

Hardback 978 1 4930 7098 5

$27.95 / £21.99

Other titles in this series:

Casting Forward

Lyons Press

Hardback

Paperback

January 2021

4930 5145

240 pages

$24.95

$19.95

$19.00

Casting Onward

Lyons Press

2022

£18.99

£14.99

£14.99

280 pages

$27.95

£21.99

Fly Fishing Essentials

Tactics for Bass and Other Warmwater Species

By Tim Jacobs

An essential guide for fly fishers.

Tim Jacobs covers techniques, rigs, and fly patterns for largemouth and smallmouth bass, pan-fish, pike, and other species common in lakes around the US. Part of a new series of fly-fishing tactics books, Tactics for Bass and Other Warmwater Species covers key areas in detail with clear and straightforward writing.

Tim Jacobs is a popular demonstration tier at various fishing shows including The Fly Fishing Show. He lives in New Castle, Colorado; find him at timjacobsflyfishing.com

Stackpole Books

May 2023 • 192 pages 4 B&W illustrations, 123 colour illustrations, 8 text boxes

Part of the Stackpole Fly Fishing Essentials series

Hardback

0 8117

eBook

0 8117

$34.95

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Modern Spey Fishing

A Complete Guide to Tactics and Techniques for Single- and Two-Handed Approaches

By Rick Kustich

An up-to-date illustrated guide to spey fishing.

This book contains new approaches and uses for spey techniques, including applications for fish species other than salmon and steelhead such as smallmouth bass, trout, and saltwater game fish. Rick Kustich also covers developments in rods and lines and micro-Spey/-Skagit gear and techniques, which is becoming extremely popular with anglers across the US. The guide includes technique photos as well as fly patterns.

Rick Kustich is a fly-fishing author, instructor, and guide who began fly-fishing fifty years ago on the lakes and streams of upstate New York. Rick’s work has appeared in numerous national and regional US publications, including Fly Fisherman and American Angler

Stackpole Books

June 2023 • 256 pages 170 clolour illustrations, 1 table

Hardback 978 0 8117 3982 5 • $49.95 / £38.00

eBook

0 8117 6975 4 • $47.50 / £37.00

Photo by Jess Zoerb on Unsplash

Bonefish Fly Patterns

Tying, Selecting, And Fishing All The Best Bonefish Flies From Today’s Best Tiers, Second Edition

By Dick Brown

A collection of almost 200 of the best fly designs from world-class flats anglers and guides.

This new and revised edition of Bonefish Fly Patterns is the most comprehensive collection of bonefish flies ever published. Each fly profile is listed with its creator’s authentic recipe and tying tips. Also included are tying sequences for important patterns, a discussion of design trends, a materials glossary, and a list of sources for materials, custom flies, and off-the-shelf patterns.

Dick Brown began chasing bonefish in the late 1970s. Today, he writes for many fishing magazine and gives tying demonstrations.

“[W]ith over 45 new patterns, the revised edition is sure to take the original’s spot as the de-finitive guide to bonefish bugs.”—Dave Skok, professional fly tier, author, photographer, and IGFA world record holder

Lyons Press

February 2023 • 320 pages 197 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 7106 7 • $24.95 / £18.95

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin

How America’s Most Famous Architect Found Inspiration in His Home State

By Kristine Hansen

Essential for fans of America’s most famous architect.

Even with world-class commissions like New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic architecture remains rooted in the landscape of his home state Wisconsin.

This comprehensive guide to Wright’s designs (and those of his protégés) that are open to the public is indispensable for tours, overnight stays or creative inspiration.

Based in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighbourhood, Kristine Hansen is a nationally recognized food, drinks and travel author. Her articles have also appeared, among others, on ArchitecturalDigest.com and in TIME Magazine

Globe Pequot

June 2023 • 192 pages 100 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 6914 9 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6915 6 • $23.50 / £17.99

The Kid’s Guide to New York City

Fourth Edition

By Eileen Ogintz

The Kid’s Guide to New York City lets the kids help plan the trip and guides you as you explore the city, neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Inside you’ll find kid-tested tips on where to go, where to eat, what to see, and where to get the best souvenirs. Along the way the kids will be engaged by sharing fun New York facts and cool tips. Awesome games will keep everyone busy as you crisscross the city on foot, by subway or bus, or in a cab.

Award-winning author Eileen Ogintz is a leading national family travel expert whose syndicated Taking the Kids is the most widely distributed column in the country on family travel. She has also created TakingtheKids.com, which helps families make the most of their vacations together. Ogintz is the author of seven family travel books and is often quoted in major publications such as USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, as well as parenting and women’s magazines on family travel. She has appeared on such television programs as The Today Show, Good Morning America, and The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as dozens of local radio and television news programs. She has travelled around the world with her three children and others in the family, talking to traveling families wherever she goes.

Before you plan your family’s next Big Apple excursion, get some help from a professional—and from your kids!

Globe Pequot

June 2023 160 pages

Part of the Kid’s Guides series

Paperback

978 1 4930 7044 2

$16.95 / £12.99

Europe by Eurail 2023

Touring Europe by Train, 47th Edition

By Laverne Ferguson-Kosinski Revised by Darren Price

Europe by Eurail has been the train traveller’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 co-authored this unique and comprehensive how-to guide in 1980. They also coauthored Britain by BritRail (Globe Pequot).

An indispensable resource for nearly 50 years.

Globe Pequot

May 2023 584 pages 21 maps

Paperback 978 1 4930 7028 2

$24.95 / £18.99

Prometheus Books: 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 prometheusbooks.com

Top authorsBacklist highlights

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

Jeremy R. Lent is a writer and the founder and president of the nonprofit Liology Institute, dedicated to fostering a worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the earth. The Liology Institute, which integrates systems science with ancient wisdom traditions, holds regular workshops and other events in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lent is the author of the novel Requiem of the Human Soul. Lent holds a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Catastrophe!

How Psychology Explains Why Good People Make Bad Situations Worse

By Christopher J. Ferguson

Whether natural or man-made, local or global, disasters impact our thinking and behaviour on both a personal and societal level. Even rather ordinary crises in our personal lives like the loss of a job or the end of a relationship trigger overwhelming feelings. At the societal level, group anxieties coupled with the moral pressure to conform can send us all down the path to ruin. Why does this happen and how can we prevent this?

In Catastrophe!, Christopher J. Ferguson examines how pandemics, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and other events of mass hysteria impact our psychology and prevent us from adequately responding to, preventing, or learning from those calamities. From the rush to hoard toilet paper during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, to debates about the science behind climate catastrophes, and shifts after traumatic events like 9/11 and the murder of George Floyd, this book uses in-depth case studies to reveal how moments of societal upheaval affect the psychology of citizens. Though we have often failed to predict, respond to, and learn from catastrophes, we have nonetheless made remarkable progress. Ferguson concludes by offering strategies to help us make better choices during crises in our own lives and providing solutions for how society can better navigate misfortune in the future.

Christopher J. Ferguson is a professor of psychology at Stetson University in Florida. His research and clinical work explore issues of crime, violence, and antisocial behaviour. He has also researched and written on the impact of media on viewers, including violent video games, sex in the media, and suicide-themed media.

What happens to our minds during extreme calamities and how can we be better prepared?

Prometheus

January 2023

258 pages 5 B&W illustrations, 10 graphs

Hardback

978 1 6338 8795 4

$27.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 6338 8796 1

$26.50 / £19.99

Audiobook

978 1 6338 8920 0

$27.95 / £21.99

Religion, Power, and Illusion

A Genealogy of Religious Belief

By Patrick J Hurley

How concepts of God are tied to generations of priests that shaped religious ideas.

The Christian god we have today is a construct assembled over a long time, and for two thousand years it has served to solidify the power of the bishops who created it. Religious orthodoxy is the result of the countless solutions proposed by priests, not the result of so-called primary texts or teachings. Patrick Hurley argues that priestly power is so firmly rooted in the human condition that religion is not likely to disappear any time soon.

Patrick Hurley is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of San Diego. He is the author of A Concise Introduction to Logic, which, for the past 25 years, has been the number one bestseller in the field.

Prometheus February 2023 • 368 pages

Hardback

978 1 6338 8840 1 • $32.95 / £25.00

Failing to Communicate

Why We Misunderstand What We Hear, Read, and See

By Roger Kreuz

Why we miscommunication and what we can do about it.

Miscommunication has led to military defeats, the loss of spacecraft, and even more tragically, accidents that cost human lives. It plays a role in road rage and social media feuds. It haunts the courtroom, the boardroom, and the singles bar. In Failing to Communicate, Roger Kreuz collates research from the fields of psychology and cognitive science to explore the answers to the question: Why didn’t they understand me?

Roger Kreuz is an associate dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Memphis and a professor in the university’s psychology department. He works mainly in experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, and psychology of language. He earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University.

Prometheus June 2023 • 250 pages

Hardback

1 6338 8889 0 • $26.95 / £20.99

eBook

1 6338 8890 6 • $25.50

The Milestones of Science

How We Came to Understand the Universe

By James D. Stein

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

Comprising riveting and readable stories from along the path of scientific discovery in the fields of astronomy, the Earth, matter, forces and energy, chemistry, life, genetics and DNA, the human body, disease, and science in the twenty-first century, author James D. Stein showcases the most noteworthy achievements of our species in a compelling and comprehensive way. The Milestones of Science highlights key observations, experiments, luminaries, and theories from the astronomical work of Galileo, Newton, and Einstein to the modern discovery of the Higgs Boson particle.

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

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

The most noteworthy achievements of our species in a compelling and comprehensive way.

Prometheus June 2023 216 pages

Hardback 978 1 6338 8848 7 $27.95 / £21.99

On Solid Ground

Why the Earth Isn’t as Controversial as You May Think

By David Goldsmith

On Solid Ground informs a general audience about what geologists know about the earth by telling the stories of the people who made the discoveries. It also chronicles the doubters and nay-sayers who have worked so hard to undermine our understanding of the earth. We know, for example, that the earth is old, in part because William Smith created our modern system of dating fossils to win a bar bet. The warming properties of atmospheric carbon dioxide were first discovered by Eunice Newton Foote, when she wasn’t pursuing her other passion—fighting for women’s rights at Seneca Falls. We are sure the earth is round despite the efforts of Samuel Birley Rowbotham, a conman who convinced thousands of people that it was flat before moving on from science to sell bogus health tonics. Each of the book’s nine chapters contains three elements: the human story of a geologic controversy, an explanation of why geologists are so sure about the right answer to that controversy, and a short discussion of the logical fallacies being used by those still unwilling to accept geologic expertise.

David Goldsmith is a palaeontologist with a Ph.D. in geology from Harvard University and a B.S. in geology from Colgate University. Currently he teaches at Westminster College, a liberal arts college in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he also serves as chair of the Geology Program. He has over 25 years of teaching experience in geology, palaeontology, and the history of science. Most of the material for this book comes from the lectures and class discussions that he has been refining throughout his career. He has won several awards for teaching, particularly his teaching in general education classes and history of science classes.

The wisdom of geology, structured and accessible.

Prometheus March 2023 200 pages 20 B&W illustrations

Hardback

978 1 6338 8830 2

$28.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 6338 8831 9

$27.5 / £20.99

Steady, Calm, and Brave

25 Buddhist Practices of Resilience and Wisdom in a Crisis

By Kimberly Brown

A practical guidebook for life’s most difficult moments.

Meditation teacher Kimberly Brown shows you how to meet unexpected circumstances with patience, clarity, and kindness. You’ll learn how to support yourself and others with simple mindfulness exercises and compassion techniques drawn from the Buddhist tradition. These transformative practices will help you manage anxiety and cope with loss. You’ll discover you create a sense of ease and peace and resilience even in the worst moments.

Navigating Grief and Loss

25 Buddhist Practices to Keep Your Heart Open to Yourself and Others

By Kimberly Brown

This relatable guide is designed to support through difficult and upsetting times.

Author Kimberly Brown offers practical applications to help navigate the profound experience of loss, be it an elderly parent, succumbing to a lingering illness, the shock of an accidental death, a small business shuttered, a divorce after years of conflict, or euthanasia of a beloved pet. Each short chapter honestly describes a personal experience dealing with death or grief and is followed by a brief practice.

Kimberly Brown leads meditation classes and retreats that emphasize the power of compassion and kindness to reconnect us to ourselves and others. Her teachings provide an approachable pathway to personal and collective well-being through effective and modern techniques based on traditional practices. She studies in both the Tibetan and Insight schools of Buddhism and is a certified mindfulness instructor.

Prometheus

March 2023 • 172 pages

Paperback

978 1 6338 8821

eBook

978 1 6338 8822

$19.95

$19

£14.99

£14.99

Prometheus January 2023 • 208 pages • 50 text boxes

Paperback

978 1 6338 8819 7 • $19.95 / £14.99

eBook

978 1 6338 8820 3 • $19.00 / £14.99

Bitches in Bonnets

Life Lessons from Jane Austen’s Mean Girls

By Sarah J. Makowski

Have you ever recognized Mrs. Elton in an office colleague? Or caught a glimpse of Lady Catherine de Bourgh in the neighbourhood crank? Over two hundred years after their creation, Jane Austen’s mean girls are still alive and kicking.

Bitches in Bonnets explores parallels between Austen’s world and our own, showing how modern social and behavioural scientists are just beginning to document and quantify what the author knew instinctively. Interweaving modern research and sociological experiments, Austen scholar Sarah Makowski looks beyond Austen’s texts for the sources of female aggression both during the Regency and today. Despite incredible advances in gender equality, women still face discrimination and bullying from creche to career. The cruellest assaults are those that are least expected—from other women. Hardly a woman alive has not experienced a false friend whose opinions and affection bring both positive and destructive consequences. The very ordinariness of Austen’s stories leaves room for us to identify with her flawed heroines and make peace with their enemies.

This book examines how six novels of quiet English Regency life still provide insight on female relationships after all these years and how Austen’s writing—and our reading of it—offers solace to millions of fans worldwide.

Sarah Makowski completed her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Aachen, Germany, and is a learning and development professional supporting individuals and organizations in achieving the right skills and competencies to perform their best. Born in Michigan, Makowski now lives in Germany with her teenage son, husband, and two cats.

What Austen’s characters teach us about female relationships today.

Prometheus May 2023 200 pages

Paperback

978 1 6338 8854 8

$21.95 / £16.99

Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation

By Leslie F. Stebbins, foreword by Ethan Zuckerman

How can we build back truth online? In this book, researcher Leslie F. Stebbins provides solutions for repairing our existing social media platforms and building better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties, and promote access to trustworthy information.

Stebbins provides a road map with six paths forward to understand how platforms are designed to exploit us, how we can learn to embrace agency in our interactions with digital spaces, how to build tools to reduce harmful practices, how platform companies can prioritize the public good, how we can repair journalism, and how to strengthen curation to promote trusted content and create new, healthier digital public squares.

Leslie F. Stebbins is an independent researcher and the Director of Research4Ed where her clients include Harvard University, the U.S. Department of Education, Tufts University, and the Gates Foundation. She has more than thirty years of experience in higher education with a background in library and information science, instructional design, research, and teaching. Her previous books, Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age and Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth have been mainstays in college and university media studies and information literacy courses. Leslie lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

A comprehensive and connected strategy on how we can reduce misinformation and build back truth online.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

March 2023 232 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 6314 6 $34.00 / £26.00

eBook

978 1 5381 6315 3 $32.00 / £25.00

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 applausebooks.com

Top authorsBacklist highlights

Roger Nygard grew up outside Minneapolis on the shores of Lake Minnetonka. At age seven he discovered his father’s 8mm camera and has been making comedy films ever since. Nygard has directed TV series such as The Office and The Bernie Mac Show, and he has edited Emmynominated episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep, and Who Is America? As an award-winning filmmaker and documentarian, Nygard has tackled serious topics in a humorous way, in films like Suckers, Trekkies, The Nature of Existence, and The Truth About Marriage.

Sean Egan has contributed to Billboard, Book Collector, Classic Rock, Reader’s Digest, Record Collector, Tennis World, Total Film, Uncut, and more. He has written or edited two dozen books, including works on the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Clash, Coronation Street, Tarzan, and James Bond. His 2002 book, Jimi Hendrix and the Making of “Are You Experienced”, was nominated for an Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.

Highly respected accounts on TV, film and theatre history

There’s a Body in the Window Seat!

The History of Arsenic and Old Lace

By Charles Dennis

There’s a Body in the Window Seat! is a detailed history of one of the most beloved American murder-mysteries and comedies, Arsenic and Old Lace. Actor, director, and playwright Charles Dennis investigates the mystery behind the play: How did a true-life crime in Connecticut turn into a comedy? And who are the real writers that deserve credit for its long-lasting success?

Dennis brings an insider’s view to Joseph Kesselring’s attempts to write Arsenic and Old Lace and how producers had to step in to save the play from his heavy hand. He also follows the actors, both on the stage and on the screen, as they handle the demands of the roles and behind-the-scenes relationships. Why didn’t Boris Karloff recreate his stage role, even though Jean Adair and John Alexander did? Why did Cary Grant hate his performance in Arsenic—was it because Frank Capra deceived him or because of costume designer Orry Kelly? And why did the movie never receive Academy Award consideration?

Learn the answers to these intriguing questions and more in There’s a Body in the Window Seat!

Charles Dennis is an author, playwright, filmmaker, actor, and voice artist. He has written several novels, including Hollywood Raj, The Magiker, and Given the Crime. His play, Going On, has been produced in New York, London, and Los Angeles. His prize-winning movies include Barking Mad and Hard Four. He has appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Ulrika Vingsbo-Dennis.

Finally solving the many mysteries of Arsenic and Old Lace.

Applause

January 2023 168 pages 13 B&W illustrations

Paperback 978 1 4930 6785 5 $19.95 / £14.99

eBook 978 1 4930 6786 2 $19 / £14.99

Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen Myth versus Reality

By Gregory S. Aldrete and Graham Sumner

No sooner had the dazzling new technology of cinema been invented near the end of the nineteenth century than filmmakers immediately turned to ancient history for inspiration. Nero, Cleopatra, Caesar, and more all found their way to the silver screen and would return again and again in the decades that followed. But just how accurate were these depictions of Ancient Rome?

In Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen: Myth versus Reality, Gregory S. Aldrete and Graham Sumner provide a fascinating examination of 50 films set in Ancient Rome, beginning with the classics from the dawn of cinema, through the great golden age of sword-and-sandals flicks in the 1950s, to the dramatic epics of the modern day. The authors analyse each film for its his-torical accuracy of plot, characters, costumes, and sets.

Featuring remarkable custom-made paintings depicting characters as they appeared in film and how they should have appeared if they were historically correct, this book delivers an invaluable perspective of film and history.

Gregory S. Aldrete is Professor Emeritus of History and Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Winner of numerous national fellowships and awards as both a scholar and a teacher, his books about the ancient world include The Long Shadow of Antiquity: What Have the Greeks and Romans Done For Us? and Daily Life in the Roman City

Graham Sumner has written and illustrated publications on Ancient Rome for almost forty years. His works include three publications on Roman military clothing and he has written the only standard work on Roman military dress.

An unparalleled exploration of films set in Ancient Rome, from the silent Cleopatra to the modern rendition of Ben-Hur.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

May 2023 240 pages 30 B&W illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 5951 4 $36.00 / £28.00

The 50 MGM Films That Transformed Hollywood

Triumphs, Blockbusters, and Fiascos

By Steven Bingen

Movies don’t exist in a vacuum. Each MGM movie is a tiny piece of a large, colourful quilt, with threads tying it into all to the rest of that studio’s product.

Not necessarily a “best of” compilation, The 50 MGM Films That Transformed Hollywood discusses the films that for one reason or another changed the trajectory of MGM and the film industry in general, from the revolutionary use of “Cinerama” in 1962’s How the West Was Won to Alfred Hitchcock’s near extortion of the profits from the 1959 hit thriller North by Northwest. And there are the studio’s onscreen self-shoutouts to its own past or stars in films like Party Girl (1958), the That’s Entertainment series, Garbo Talks (1984), Rain Man (1955) and De-Lovely (2004), or the studio’s acquisition of other successful franchises such as James Bond.

But fear not, what we consider MGM’s classic films all get their due here, often with a touch of irony or fascinating anecdote. Singin’ in the Rain (1952), for example, was in its day neither a financial blockbuster nor critically acclaimed but rather an excuse for the studio to reuse some old songs which the studio already owned. The Wizard of Oz (1939) cost almost as much to make as Gone With the Wind (also 1939) and took ten years to recoup its costs. But still, the MGM mystique endures.

Steven Bingen is an author, archivist, lecturer, and Hollywood insider who has written or contributed to dozens of books, articles, and documentaries on popular culture, film history, and in particular, Hollywood’s physical past. He lives in Los Angeles, USA.

A fascinating look behind the scenes of the greatest—and at times notorious—films ever made.

Lyons Press

January 2023 344 pages 100 B&W illustrations, 85 colour illustrations

Hardback 978 1 4930 6700 8 $45.00 / £35.00

eBook 978 1 4930 7089 3 $42.5 / £33

Movie Dad

Finding Myself and My Family, On Screen and Off

By Paul Dooley

This beloved movie dad’s personal life hold a painful secret.

Paul Dooley has been an actor for sixty-five years and has portrayed fathers in more than twenty-five movies such as Breaking Away, Sixteen Candles, and Run Away Bride. In Movie Dad, Dooley reveals how his own fatherhood was jeopardized while he was the on-screen dad to Julia Roberts, Molly Ringwald, Toni Collette, Robin Wright, and Helen Hunt. This touching autobiography he tells of the shock and denial he experienced when his ex-wife kidnapped his two children, followed by the private detectives, court, and frantically looking for his kids. When he found only dead ends, he threw himself into work but the success he found as a father on-screen is a story of wry irony.

Applause

February 2023 • 256 pages 40 colour illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 6307 9 • $29.95 / £22.99

The Way We Were The Making of a Romantic Classic

By Tom Santopietro

An investigation to decode the enduring power of a landmark movie, Hubbell.

Cited in television shows and films to this day, The Way We Were continues to enthral audiences with its mysterious chemistry between its main stars Streisand and Redford. Filled with first-hand accounts by actors, film historians, and members of the creative team, this book is the ultimate fiftieth anniversary account of a beloved movie that has remained an emotional touchstone for generations.

Tom Santopietro is the author of eight previous books, including the best-selling The Sound of Music Story, The Godfather Effect, and The New York Times Editor’s Choice Considering Doris Day. Over the past thirty years, he has managed three dozen Broadway shows.

Applause

May 2023 • 288 pages 33 colour illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 7125 8 • $36.95 / £28.00

Seasons of Love

Why Rent Matters

By Emily Garside

256 pages of love for Rent.

Rent’s importance transcends the musical and its fans—it was and is one of the most important musicals of the twentieth century, and its impact resonates far beyond its own productions. Seasons of Love is an ode to the small off-Broadway musical that swiftly moved uptown and broke box office records and won every award in the book and offers analysis on why Rent has had such a profound impact on the landscape of musical theatre.

As a journalist and academic with experience in history, theatre, and film studies, 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

Applause

March 2023 • 256 pages

colour illustrations

Hardback

1 4930 6461 8 • $29.95 / £22.99

Magic To Do

Pippin’s Fantastic, Fraught Journey to Broadway and Beyond

By Elysa Gardner

An intimate look at an innovative musical without which there would be no Hamilton.

Magic to Do dives deep into the creation and enduring legacy of Pippin and documents how legendary clashes, backstage drama, and incredible artistic synergy that produced one of Broadway’s most influential musicals, a show that paved the way for the pop-informed musicals that we know and love today.

Elysa Gardner, formerly the theatre and music critic for USA Today, currently covers cabaret for the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and many others. She is a critic for New York Stage Review and hosts the podcast Stage Door Sessions for Broadway Direct.

Applause

January 2023 • 250 pages

colour illustrations

Hardback

1 4930 6435 9 • $26.95 / £20.99

eBook

1 4930 6436 6 • $25.50 / £19.99

Small Explosions

Bold and Combustible New Monologues for All Ages and Genders

By Adam Szymkowicz

One minute is all the time an actor needs to make a scorching impression.

Small Explosions collects more than ninety entirely new monologues from acclaimed playwright Adam Szymkowicz (Hearts Like Fists, Clown Bar, Pretty Theft). Short, punchy, and thoroughly memorable, they traverse the extremes of heartbreak and joy, epiphany, and bewilderment, across a range of moods and voices. Perfect as audition pieces or training exercises, they hit hard, make their mark, and just as quickly get out of the way, leaving an indelible impression.

Adam Szymkowicz is the literary manager for the Julliard School’s playwriting programme. His plays have been produced in sixteen countries.

Applause

April 2023 • 104 pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 7137 1 • $14.95 / £11.99

The Future Is Not Fixed

Short Plays Envisioning a Global Green New Deal

Compiled by Chantal Bilodeau

Fifty plays on climate change.

The fifty plays in this anthology were commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action 2021, a global participatory theatre festival that brings communities together around climate justice and climate change issues. Fifty playwrights representing all inhabited continents, with a wide range of styles and perspectives, contributed a five-minute play envisioning what a Global Green New Deal might look like and offer visions of a just, sustainable, and thriving future.

Chantal Bilodeau is a playwright and translator. In her capacity as artistic director of The Arctic Cycle, she gets theatre and educational communities across the world to engage in climate action through theatre programming.

Applause

February 2023 • 320 pages

12 B&W illustrations, 1 table

Paperback

978 1 4930 6465 6 • $22.95 / £17.99

New in Paperback

The Anointed

New York’s White Shoe Law Firms—How They Started, How They Grew, and How They Ran the Country

By Jeremiah Lambert and Geoffrey S. Stewart

This is the story of how and why such powerhouse Wall Street law firms as Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Davis Polk & Wardwell, and Sullivan & Cromwell, grew from nineteenth-century entrepreneurial origins into icons of institutional law practice.

In The Anointed, Jeremiah D. Lambert and Geoffrey S. Stewart describe how the most prestigious law firms in the US-American epicentre of politics and economy became white-shoe bastions with the social standards of an exclusive gentlemen’s club and promoted the values of an east coast elite. The authors also recount how these law firms adapted to a radically changed legal world, surviving snobbish insularity and ferocious competition to remain at the pinnacle of a transformed profession.

Jeremiah D. Lambert is a nationally recognized lawyer and a member of the New York and District of Columbia bars. He commenced his legal career in New York City as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and later practiced as co-founder of Peabody, Lambert & Meyers in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Princeton University, a former Fulbright Scholar, and a graduate of Yale Law School.

Geoffrey S. Stewart is a Washington-based lawyer who handles complex commercial and international litigation. He attended Brown University, trained at Harvard Law School and began his career at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and Washington, D.C. He served at the Department of Justice in the 1980s was later a partner at the firms Hale and Dorr and Jones Day.

Those looking for a shrewd inside take on elite law firms will find this brings the goods.—Publishers Weekly

The inside track to the history of some of New York’s most iconic elite law firms.

Lyons Press

May 2023 256 pages 24 B&W illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 7187 6

$19.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 5633 0 $27.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 4930 5634 7

$19.00 / £14.99

Julia Child Rules

Lessons On Savoring Life

By Karen Karbo

A window into the legendary cook, author, and television host’s fascinating backstory.

If Julia Child stood for anything, it was the pleasure found in sharing good food with good people, working hard and being content (even when things aren’t going your way), and living with joy and abandon. In this book, the author of The Gospel According to Coco Chanel shares the universal themes we can all learn from the master of French cooking and shows us how to savour life.

“Karen Karbo has written that rare bird of a book: one that manages on every page to be as en-lightening as it is entertaining, as smart as it is funny.”—Cheryl Strayed, author of the New York Times bestseller Wild

Globe Pequot

April 2023 • 240 pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 7313 9 • $19.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback

978 0 7627 8309 0 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 0067 8 • $23.50 / £17.99

The Golden Age of Ironwork

By Henry Magaziner Photographs by Robert D. Golding

A comprehensive overview of nine-teenth and early twentieth-century ironwork.

Henry Jonas Magaziner describes the golden period of ironwork from roughly 1840 to 1930. Magaziner includes cast iron, which remained popular throughout the nineteenth century, and hand-wrought iron, which triumphed from the turn of the century to 1930.

Henry Jonas Magaziner was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the restoration architect for various historic buildings in Philadelphia’s Society Hill. He has both designed ironwork and hand-forged iron.

Robert D. Golding was a Fellow of the American Society of Photographers and taught a course in architectural photography at The Antonelli Institute of Art and Photography.

Skip Jack Press

April 2023 • 224 pages 173 illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 7284 2 • $30.00 / £22.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 8795 3514 5 • $34.00 / £26.00

HMS Hazard

A John Pearce Adventure

By David Donachie

John Pearce is torn between two missions.

1796: John Pearce is stuck with a raw crew. In his favour he commands HMS Hazard, a sound and speedy warship, a pair of competent officers and his trusty old friends, the Pelicans. Their mission is to head for the Mediterranean Fleet and warn Admiral Sir John Jervis of impending danger he will face, fighting a combined French/Spanish fleet. But there is a distraction: the imminent arrival of a Spanish vessel from South America carrying silver. Stop that and they will lack the funds to truly engage as an enemy of Britannia. Can John Pearce resist the lure of such a valuable capture and risk his ship in a dangerous battle to gain it, or will his duty come first?

McBooks Press

May 2023 • 304 pages

Part of the John Pearce series

Paperback

978 1 4930 7208 8 • $19.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback 978 1 4930 6065 8 • $29.95 / £22.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6338 3 • $5.99 / £4.99

Divided on D-Day

How Conflicts and Rivalries Jeopardized the Allied Victory at Normandy

By Edward E. Gordon and David Ramsay

How lack of cooperation and bad decisions lengthened the war, increased casualties, and allowed the later Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.

In anticipation of the 75th anniversary of D-Day comes this fresh perspective on the Normandy invasion, complete with maps illustrating the campaign’s progression and photographs of the commanders and the battlefield terrain.

Edward E. Gordon is a professional historian, researcher, writer, and speaker.

David Ramsay has lectured and been interviewed for radio and television on the 1944 Normandy landings.

“This is one of the most profound what-if books written on World War II.”—Alan Axelrod, author of The Real History of World War II and Patton’s Drive

Prometheus

June 2023 • 461 pages

Paperback

978 1 6338 8907 1 • $22.95 / £17.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 6338 8319 2 • $26.00 / £19.99

America’s First Freedom Rider

Elizabeth Jennings, Chester A. Arthur, and the Early Fight for Civil Rights

By Jerry Mikorenda

Elizabeth Jennings’ impact on desegregating public transit in the US.

When Elizabeth Jennings refused to step off an omnibus in 1854, she was assaulted by the con-ductor and a police officer. One year later, her case against Third Avenue Rail Road was settled when the jury stunned the courtroom with a $250 verdict in her favour.

Jerry Mikorenda has written for The New York Times, Newsday, The Boston Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, and Wall Street Journal as well as various other magazines.

“Here’s a story every American should know.”—Stewart O’Nan, author of The Circus Fire

Lyons Press

January 2023 • 256 pages 22 B&W illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 5942 3 • $18.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 4134 3 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 4135 0 • $18.00 / £13.99

No Place for a Woman

The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West

By Chris Enss, introduction by Erin H. Turner

An exploration of women’s rights history in the West.

No Place for a Woman examines the conditions during the vast migration of pioneers on the frontier, the politics of the emerging Western territories at the end of the Civil War, and the changing social and economic conditions of a country recovering from war and on the brink of the Gilded Age. Through individual stories, this book reveals how the hard work and individual lobbying of a few heroines ushered in a new era for the expansion of women’s rights.

Chris Enss is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for over twenty years.

TwoDot

April 2023 • 232 pages

57 B&W illustrations, 1 map, 60 text boxes

Paperback

978 1 4930 7241 5 • $19.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 4891 5 • $26.95 / £20.99

eBook

978 1 4930 4892 2 • $19.00 / £14.99

The Hudson Valley: The First 250 Million Years

A Mostly Chronological and Occasionally Personal History

By David Levine

A funny, personal, and entertaining collection of essays on the Hudson Valley’s most important and interesting people, places, and events.

From the dinosaurs and the glaciers to the first native peoples and the first European settlers, from Dutch and English Colonial rule to the American Revolution, from the slave society to the Civil War, from the robber barons and bootleggers to the war heroes and the happy rise of craft beer pubs, the Hudson Valley has a deep history.

David Levine is a freelance writer and editor. He currently writes for Hudson Valley, Westchester, and 914Inc magazines.

Globe Pequot

May 2023 • 320 pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 7316 0 • $19.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 4789 5 • $26.95 / £20.99

eBook

978 1 4930 4790 1 • $25.50 / £19.99

Casting Forward

Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country

By Steve Ramirez, foreword by Ted Williams, illustrated by Bob White

The story of a living, breathing place and its fight for survival.

In Casting Forward, Steve Ramirez goes on a yearlong fly-fishing journey to all the major rivers of the Texas Hill Country and makes an impassioned plea for a new ethic of how we treat fish, nature, and each other.

Steve Ramirez is a writer, educator, master naturalist, philosopher, and outdoor adventurer who lives and writes in Texas. He has lived in and travelled across four continents chronicling the unique historical landscapes, human cultures, and natural worlds that are in danger of vanishing.

Lyons Press

June 2023 • 240 pages

3 B&W illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 6671 1 • $19.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 5145 8 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 5146 5 • $19.00 / £14.99

The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers

By Alfred S. Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann

The most ubiquitous number pattern in mathematics made accessible and appealing to even the most math-phobic individual.

With admirable clarity, two veteran math educators take us on a fascinating tour of the many ramifications of the Fibonacci numbers. Beginning with a brief history of a distinguished Italian discoverer, the authors follow up with the unbelievable connections between Fibonacci numbers and natural forms. They also look at art, architecture, the stock market, and other areas of society and culture where numerous examples of the Fibonacci sequence as well as its derivative, the “golden ratio”, find their use. And of course, in mathematics, as the authors amply demonstrate, there are almost boundless applications.

Prometheus

April 2023 • 392 pages

Paperback

1 6338 8906

$22.95 / £17.99

Previously published in hardback

1 5910 2475

eBook

1 6159 2022

$28.99

$27.50

£21.99

£20.99

Quantum Fuzz

The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us

By Michael S. Walker

Quantum physics, accessible for laypeople.

Veteran physicist Michael S. Walker uses illuminating analogies and jargon-free language to illustrate the basic principles of the subatomic world and show how they explain everything from the chemistry around us to the formation of galaxies.

“[A]n excellent introduction for anyone reading about physics for the first time”—Barry Parker, author of The Physics of War

Prometheus

April 2023 • 448 pages

Paperback

1 6338 8905 7

$22.95 / £17.99

Previously published in hardback

1 6338 8239 3

eBook

1 6338 8240

$28.00 / £21.00

$26.50 / £19.99

Black Oscars

From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us about African Americans

By Frederick Gooding Jr.

A thorough analysis and overview of black actors nominated for their Hollywood roles.

Black Oscars draws on American, African American, and film history to reflect on how the Oscars have recognized blacks from the award’s inception to the present. Historical patterns are analyzed to reveal racial trends and open up the question of whether race relations have truly changed substantively or only superficially over time.

Frederick W. Gooding, Jr. is an Assistant Professor within the Honors College at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. He is the author of You Mean, There’s RACE in My Movie? The Complete Guide to Understanding Race in Mainstream Hollywood.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

February 2023 • 320 pages

Paperback

978 1 5381 7568 2 • $24.00 / £17.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 5381 2372 0 • $41.00 / £32.00

eBook

978 1 5381 2373 7 • $39.00 / £30.00

My West Side Story

A Memoir

By George Chakiris, with Lindsay Harrison

The memoir of a long and distinguished career set off by West Side Story.

George Chakiris famously won an Oscar for his portrayal of the angry gang leader Bernardo in the 1961 film version of West Side Story. This autobiography is an insider’s look at how this theatrical and cinematic landmark evolved from a conversation in Jerome Robbins’ apartment to ten Oscars, three Golden Globes, two Tony Awards, and a Grammy.

After appearing in the London stage production of West Side Story, George Chakiris was selected by Jerome Robbins to co-star in the eponymous film. Since then, he appeared in dozens of plays, films, and TV shows before retiring in 1996.

Lyons Press

May 2023 • 232 pages

112 B&W illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 7233 0 • $17.95 / £13.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 5547 0 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 5548 7 • $17.00 / £12.99

The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors

From the Silent Era to 1965

By Barry Monush

Screen World presents: another comprehensive work for every lover’s library with over 1,000 photos!

In the first of two volumes, Barry Monush chronicles the careers of every significant film actor from the earliest silent screen stars to the mid-1960s. Each listing includes a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor’s contributions—good or bad! In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear.

Barry Monush is the Associate Editor of Screen World, and a researcher at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City.

Applause

January 2023 • 832 pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 7080 0 • $90.00 / £69.00

Previously published as eBook

978 1 4803 2998 0 • $33.00 / £25.00

Al Capone’s Beer Wars

A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago during Prohibition

By John J. Binder

The first complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition.

Based on 25 years of research and using many previously unexplored sources, this fascinating account of a bloody and colourful era in Chicago history discusses all important bootlegging gangs in the city and the suburbs from 1920 to 1933.

John J. Binder is a recognized authority on the history of organized crime in Chicago.

For the historian, researcher, or simple true crime buff, John J. Binder has done all a great service.” —Mars Eghigian Jr., author of After Capone

Prometheus

January 2023 • 414 pages

120 B&W illustrations, 13 tables

Paperback

978 1 6338 8832 6 • $21.95 / £16.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 6338 8285 0 • $25.00 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 6338 8286 7 • $20.50 / £15.99

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