New Books Highlights July-December 2023 by Rowman & Littlefield

July–December 2023

Books Highlights

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The Rise of the Global Middle Class

How the Search for a Good Life Can Change the World

By Homi Kharas

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

Homi Kharas is a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development, housed in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings.

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

Brookings Institution Press

November 2023

192 pages

Hardback

978 0 8157 4032 2

$28.00 / £21.99

eBook

978 0 8157 4033 9

$26.00 / £19.99

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Business & Economics • Economic Conditions

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Photo by Jezael Melgoza on Unsplash. Cover coming soon

Industrial DevOps Build Better Systems Faster

By Dr. Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman

As DevOps continues to challenge the status quo and improve business outcomes for software systems, many of the world’s larger enterprises are beginning to consider how they might scale these practices across large, complex systems composed of hardware, firmware, and software. The ability to iterate and deploy faster allows companies to adapt to changing needs, reduce cycle time for delivery, increase value for money, improve transparency, and leverage innovations.

Industrial DevOps, written by two researchers who helped coin the idea, shows organizations how to apply the theories and practices of DevOps to complex cyberphysical systems. The book also features a number of case studies of organizations that are successfully applying these theories today.

Dr. Suzette Johnson is an Enterprise Lean-Agile Strategy leader and coach with an interest and passion for promoting and implementing Agile practices and DevOps in large-scale software/hardware systems environments, including at the US Department of Defense and the Federal Government. She lives in Pasadena, Maryland.

Robin Yeman is a results-focused Enterprise Lean Agile leader with the ability to merge extensive technical skills and management capabilities in order to successfully lead technical projects in a fast-paced environment. She is currently working on her PhD and lives in Orlando, Florida.

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Shows organizations how to apply the theories and practices of DevOps to complex systems that combine software, hardware, and firmware.

IT Revolution Press

October 2023

320 pages

Trade paperback 978 1 9505 0879 2

$26.00 / £19.95

Technology & Engineering • Project Management

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Crochet Impkins

Over a million possible combinations! Yes, really!

By Megan Lapp

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

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

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

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Bring your very own Impkin alive with hook and yarn.

Stackpole Books

November 2023

216 pages

460 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 0 8117 7160 3

$28.95 / £21.99

eBook 978 0 8117 7161 0

$27.50 / £20.99

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

By the same author:

Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend: 19 Designs Easy Cute Critters to Legendary Beasts

Stackpole Books • May 2023 • 256 pages • 784 colour illustrations

Paperback • 978 0 8117 7148 1 • $26.95 / £20.99

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Droits of the Crown

A John Pearce Adventure, Vol. 18

By David Donachie

John Pearce faces a court martial, but will cowardly Toby Burns, chief witness, stand up to questioning? With the matter unresolved, HMS Hazard is put under the command of Horatio Nelson, with whom no cruise can be without incident. Sure enough, battle is joined with two Spanish frigates, though success is short-lived and flight in the face of a superior foe becomes the only option.

In London, the government denies prize money for the cargo of silver Pearce took off the Santa Leocadia, claiming it as property of the Crown. Pearce’s prize agent seeks to fight this, only to be outmanoeuvred by devious Henry Dundas. Worse, some very bad pennies from the past have come back to haunt the life of Emily Barclay and the thief-taker Walter Hodgson.

From Elba, Pearce is sent on a mission to collect fleeing members of the Corsican government: an assignment which looks simple but is anything but. Seeking a solution which will not risk his ship, he seeks the aid of a local clan chief, inadvertently putting himself, his crew, and his rescued charges in jeopardy. Pearce finds himself trapped in a deep Corsican bay, facing odds of two to one, which he can only overcome by employing devious tactics. And even successful, he will be forced to make a decision: to follow his instincts or to obey his orders.

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.

Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines

Psycho Boys

How a Unit of Refugees, Artists, and Professors Fought Back against the Third Reich

By Beverley Driver Eddy

They were not your typical World War II soldiers. Most were not in particularly good physical shape, and many had trouble handling their weapons. They were a strange mix of Americans and foreign nationals, immigrants, and refugees, linked by their language skills, knowledge of Europe, and a desire to defeat the Axis. During the war, the U.S. Army trained them in psychological warfare at a secret camp on the Gettysburg battlefield and then sent them to Europe. They became known as “Psycho Boys,” a group of soldiers who have never received their due respect.

Trained in prisoner and civilian interrogation, broadcasting, loudspeaker appeals, leaflet and newspaper production, and technical support, the 800 men were sent to Europe to land on D-Day. Drawing on company histories, memoirs, and interviews, Beverley Driver Eddy traces their history and shows that the Psycho Boys were not mere “paragraph troopers” who weren’t in the line of fire. Instead, they made important contributions to victory in World War II by encouraging enemy soldiers to desert or surrender and in other indirect ways.

Beverley Driver Eddy is professor emerita of German studies at Dickinson College, with seven books to her credit, including Ritchie Boy Secrets (Stackpole, 2021). She has spoken widely on this topic, including at the U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center, and has appeared on C-SPAN’s BookTV podcast. Eddy lives in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

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A rarely heard story of a group of allied WWII soldiers trained in psychological warfare.

Stackpole Books

December 2023

224 pages

36 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 0 8117 7362 1

$27.95 / £21.99

eBook 978 0 8117 7363 8

$26.50 / £19.99

History • Military / World War II

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Land of War

A History of European Warfare from Achilles to Putin

By William Nester

War in Europe began with the first human migrants. Rival bands fought for thousands of years before the Greeks and Romans began writing about their military history, first as legend—for instance, the hero Achilles battling the Trojans—and then as fact.

War developed from sticks and stones to bronze, iron, and steel, including armor and edged weapons. Then came gunpowder, guns, and cannons, which eventually replaced edged weapons. Finally, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, technology exploded: railroads, steamships, telegraphs, machine guns, automobiles, airplanes, and tanks enabled European states to muster, equip, arm, transport, and command more men than ever before, with more firepower than ever before. In the past seventy-five years, atomic weapons changed the military landscape of Europe—as have the internet and cyber warfare.

From the Thermopylae to Putin’s attempts to redraw the map of Europe, William Nester highlights how warfare has been deeply entwined with European statesmanship and undergirds modern institutions such as NATO and the European Union.

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

An epic odyssey from Europe’s mythic origins through its latest violent conflicts.

Stackpole Books

July 2023

520 pages

54 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 0 8117 7248 8

$39.95 / £31.00

eBook

978 0 8117 7249 5

$38.00 / £29.00

History • Military / General

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America’s Youngest Ambassador

The Cold War Story of Samantha Smith’s Lasting Message of Peace

By Lena Nelson

In 1982, amid the nuclear paranoia that engulfed the US and the Soviet Union, Samantha Smith, a fifth grader from Maine, wrote a letter to the Kremlin asking the Soviet leader if he was going to start a war. When Pravda, the biggest Soviet newspaper, published her letter and Samantha received an unprecedented invitation to visit the Soviet Union, her family embarked on a historic journey that helped transform the hearts and minds of two nations on a collision course.

Today, it is 100 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday Clock, and a cold war seems like a possibility again. The story of a young American girl’s letter to the Soviet leader and her innocent curiosity about the other side of the Iron Curtain holds an important lesson: to never stop questioning the status quo, and to recognize that the responsibility for the preservation of peace is not only the purveyance of governments.

In America’s Youngest Ambassador, Lena Nelson explores the consequences of government propaganda on both sides of the ocean and reveals how Samantha Smith’s journey in the summer of 1983 helped thaw the ice of the Cold War. Drawing on interviews conducted in both the US and Russia, Nelson blends storytelling, anecdotes, and analysis of Soviet–American relations to trace this unprecedented moment in history.

Lena Nelson is a writer, teacher and historian who has spent the past fifteen years researching and documenting the story of Samantha Smith and has worked with numerous news, educational, and political organizations around the world. She has degrees in International Studies and Linguistics and lives with her family in Riverside, California.

An important message for young people who strive for change, both locally and worldwide.

Down East Books

August 2023

240 pages

26 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 6847 5020 7

$26.95 / £20.99

Biography & Autobiography • Social Activists

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Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism

Second Edition

By Lewis R. Gordon, introduction by Mabogo Percy More

In this contemporary classic, Lewis Gordon presents his iconic, detailed existential phenomenological investigation of antiblack racism as a form of Sartrean bad faith. Bad faith, the attitude in which human beings attempt to evade freedom and responsibility, is treated as a constant possibility of human existence. Antiblack racism, the attitude and practice that involve the construction of black people as fundamentally inferior and subhuman, is examined as an effort to evade the responsibilities of a human and humane world. Gordon argues that the concept of bad faith militates against any human science that is built upon a theory of human nature and as such offers an analysis of antiblack racism that stands as a challenge to our ordinary assumptions of what it means to be human.

A foundational text in black existentialism, this 25th anniversary edition includes a substantial introduction by Paul Gilroy to address the ongoing importance of Gordon’s thought in critiquing and resisting racist bad faith in our contemporary moment.

Lewis R. Gordon is Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, Visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa, European Union Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France, and Writer-in-Residence at Birkbeck School of Law.

Mabogo Percy More is a former professor of philosophy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is currently professor of philosophy at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. He was awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2015.

The 25th anniversary edition of a contemporary classic, with an introduction by Paul Gilroy.

Humanities Press

August 2023

236 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 4366 7

$95.00 / £73.00

Paperback

978 1 5381 7960 4

$34.00 / £26.00

eBook

978 1 5381 4367 4

$32.00 / £25.00

Philosophy • Movements / Humanism

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Lies about Black People How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why It Matters

By Omekongo Dibinga, foreword by Michael Eric Dyson

From the Black Lives Matter movement to the health and economic disparities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, US-Americans have been forced to reckon with their country’s fraught history—and present—of racial bias and inequality. Now that we have scratched the surface on courageous conversations about race, many are wondering: What is the next step towards healing and justice?

Lies About Black People is for anyone who wants to overcome their own biases and behaviors to take action, make change, and engage positively in the fight for racial equality. In this honest and welcoming book, Dr. Omekongo Dibinga argues that we must re-educate ourselves on the stereotypes that have proven harmful to the black community. Through personal anecdotes, nuanced historical inquiry, and engaging analysis of modern-day events and their historical context and implications, this invaluable guide breaks down some of the most powerful lies told about black people. Whether pernicious or seemingly innocuous, all of the lies and stereotypes combatted in this book are rooted in hate and undermine not only black people in America, but society as a whole. Dibinga also provides powerful insights on our racial vocabulary, reflective hands-on exercises, and honest discussion about how to move beyond misplaced shame and use privilege to serve others.

Dr. Omekongo Dibinga’s life has been devoted to challenging bias and smashing stereotypes for over 30 years since first getting involved as a community activist. Dibinga is Professorial Lecturer of Intercultural Communication at American University and a wellknown speaker working with corporations and school districts across the US on culturally relevant instruction.

An open and thoughtful guide to the path to understanding, action, and change.

Prometheus

September 2023

232 pages

Hardback

978 1 6338 8878 4

$26.95 / £20.99

eBook

978 1 6338 8879 1

$25.50 / £19.99

Social Science • Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

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Built to Punish How the Criminal Justice System Undermines American Society

By Nora V. Demleitner

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Fear of crime and endless demands for punishment support an enforcement apparatus that distorts democracy, the economy, and our relationships with each other and unequal enforcement of our laws leaves the poor and particularly African Americans underprotected and overpunished.

With Built to Punish, Nora Demleitner offers both a comprehensive bird’s eye view of the contours of the criminal justice system, and a critical analysis of its impact on our society. It weaves high-profile accounts together with data, history, and personal experiences to reveal an interconnected system driven by fear, money, power, and structural racism.

But Demleitner also shows that despite these problems, change is possible. Despite the recent surge in executions of federal inmates, the death penalty itself is dying a slow death and drug decriminalization and legalization are sweeping the country, promising to shrink the system’s expanse.

Nora V. Demleitner is a chaired law professor at Virginia’s Washington and Lee University, one of the nation’s top law schools. She has a national and international reputation in criminal justice reform work. Her extensive writing has focused especially on sentencing and the myriad consequences that flow from punishment.

A critical analysis of how the US criminal justice systems leaves marginalised groups underprotected and overpunished.

Prometheus

September 2023

275 pages

Hardback 978 1 6338 8860 9 $28.95 / £21.99

Social Science • Criminology

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Photo by Emiliano Bar on Unsplash. Cover coming soon

God

The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction

By Dan Barker, foreword by Richard Dawkins

What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? In fact, the Bible lays out God’s primary qualities clearly: jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive and worse!

Originally conceived as a joint presentation between influential thinker and bestselling author Richard Dawkins and former evangelical preacher Dan Barker, this unique book provides an investigation into what may be the most unpleasant character in all fiction. Barker combs through both the Old and New Testament (as well as 13 different editions of the “Good Book”), presenting powerful evidence for why the Scripture shouldn’t govern our everyday lives. This witty, well-researched book suggests that we should move past the Bible and clear a path to a kinder and more thoughtful world.

Daniel Barker was a Christian preacher and minister for 19 years, before leaving Christianity in 1984. Today, he is the co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation with his wife, Annie Laurie Gaylor, and is the author of several books, including his memoir, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Expanding on a concept from New York Times bestseller The God Delusion, former ordained minister and current atheist Dan Barker gives us a biblical play-by-play illustrating God’s not-so-admirable qualities.

Prometheus

July 2023

342 pages

Trade paperback

978 1 6338 8876 0

$24.95 / £18.99

eBook 978 1 6338 8877 7

$23.50 / £17.99

Philosophy • Movements / Humanism

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The Art of the Zombie Movie

By Lisa Morton, foreword by John A. Russo

Whether George Romero’s implacable, slow-moving monstrosities or the fleet-footed terrors of 28 Days Later, over the last several decades the zombie has ascended into the upper echelon of the movie monster pantheon— an elite tier once reserved only for vampires, werewolves, and Frankenstein’s monster.

The Art of the Zombie Movie features over 500 posters, lobby cards, pressbooks, stills, and props from zombie movies across the whole of cinema history and includes the story of the origin and global reach of the zombie feature film; special features, quotes, and interviews from key creators; a survey of such varied subgenres as Blaxploitation, sci-fi, cowboy, and comic zombie films; and a selection of foreign zombie movies from Mexico, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Japan, and other countries.

With unprecedented range and detail, this comprehensive collection of zombie movie art begins in 1932 (when The White Zombie, the first true entrant in the genre, was released), explores the renaissance that was launched by George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, and traces the countless variations, innovations, and reinventions that continue to ensure that the zombie genre will never truly die.

Lisa Morton is a six-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author. Her books include Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween and Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances

An eye-popping, entertaining visual history of zombie films written by a six-time Bram Stoker Award winner.

Applause

October 2023

224 pages

Hardback

978 1 4930 6970 5

$45.00 / £35.00

Performing Arts • Film / Genres / Horror

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Photo by Nathan Wright on Unsplash. Cover coming soon

The Art of Classic Sci-Fi Movies

An Illustrated History

Edited by Adam Newell, foreword by Kim Newman

From the dawn of silent cinema to today, sci-fi movies have been a constant presence in pop culture, with mad scientists, terrifying monsters (giant and otherwise), UFOs, and invading aliens all bursting out from some of the most brilliantly designed posters ever printed, featuring art that was sometimes lurid, always eyecatching, and often simply beautiful.

The Art of Classic Sci-Fi Movies presents a stellar selection of imagery, charting the story of the genre from its origins in foundational works like Voyage to the Moon and Metropolis, through Cold-War classics like Invasion of the Body-Snatchers and Godzilla, and on to visionary films such as 2001 and Solaris—as well as less celebrated but nonetheless infamous cultural artifacts like Barbarella and Zardoz, and genuine oddities such as Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders. The most extensive book of its type, The Art of Classic Sci-Fi Movies includes ample selections from American movies as well as a range of films from Japan, Italy, Spain, France, Russia, and Eastern Europe.

Adam Newell served as the editor for The Art of the B-Movie Poster and has been instrumental in the publication of titles such as The Art of Horror Movies, Crazy 4 Cult: Cult Movie Art, The Art of Hammer, and Mondo Macabro: Weird & Wonderful Cinema around the World

Acknowledging the iconic, with plenty of room for the rare and unfamiliar.

Applause

November 2023

320 pages

750 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 7103 6

$45.00 / £35.00

Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

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Slaves among Us The Hidden World of Human Trafficking

By Monique Villa, foreword by Evelyn Chumbow

Through the stories of three remarkable individuals who share how they fell victim to traffickers and how their bodies and souls resisted an enterprise of total destruction, Monique Villa takes us around the world— from Ohio to Tokyo, London to India, Qatar to Colombia— to uncover a parallel world where men, women, and children are dehumanized and reduced to obedient machines. Written by a global leader in the fight against human trafficking, Slaves Among Us uncovers the hidden world of slaves—no longer physically in chains—who walk among us, trapped in a cycle of exploitation.

Now with a foreword by trafficking survivor Evelyn Chumbow of The Human Trafficking Legal Center.

Monique Villa is the former CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the founder of TrustLaw, Trust Conference, and the Stop Slavery Awards. In 2015, Villa received the Champions for Change Award for her vision and effort in the fight against human trafficking and modern-day slavery. She was ranked fourth in the UK’s 2018 Top 100 Modern Slavery Influencers’ Index. She lives in London.

A vital guide for teachers, nonprofits, and others seeking to understand the global fight against slavery.—Kirkus

a powerful, eye-opening look at human exploitation and our complicity as consumers.—Booklist

well-argued, moving, and passionate—Margaret MacMillan, historian

I discovered sex trafficking through filming SOLD, and Monique Villa’s book is an eye-opener on the human experience of slavery.—Gillian Anderson, award-winning actress

The horrific world of modern slavery exposed. With a new foreword and in paperback.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2023

216 pages

8 illustrations

Paperback

978 1 5381 8045 7 • $17.95 / £13.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 5381 2728 5 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 5381 2729 2 • $23.50 / £17.99

Audiobook

978 1 5381 3578 5 • $23.50 / £17.99

Social Science • Human Trafficking

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Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Lies Born With a Junk Food Deficiency

By Martha Rosenberg

Why have federal meat inspectors become pathetic figureheads in the nation’s slaughterhous-es, laughed at by plant managers? Why are medical articles that have been exposed in law-suits as fraudulent still standing and not retracted? And why was meat possibly containing the United States’ first mad cow sold to five California restaurants when the government said it wasn’t?

You’ll find the answers to these and many more disturbing questions in this revealing book as Martha Rosenberg blows the lid off everything you thought you knew about Big Pharma and Big Food. What goes on behind the scenes in these industries is more suspicious, more devi-ous, more disreputable than you could have ever imagined.

Having gained the trust of more than twenty doctors, researchers, and experts who were will-ing to come forward and finally tell all, reporter and editorial cartoonist Martha Rosenberg presents us with her shocking findings. Explosive material from whistleblowers, scientists, un-sealed lawsuits, and Big Pharma’s and Big Food’s own marketers exposes how these industries put profits before public safety and how the government puts the interests of business before the welfare of consumers, creating a double whammy that “pimps” the public health. What Rosenberg reveals about government complicity, regulatory food and drug safety lapses, and legislative injustices will both shock and appal.

Martha Rosenberg is a freelance writer and editorial cartoonist. She has been a frequent con-tributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Providence Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. Her work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous other US outlets.

The hard-hitting exposé by a leading US muckraker, now updated and with a new chapter and new epilogue.

Prometheus

October 2023

350 pages

Paperback

978 1 6338 8935 4

$21.95 / £16.95

Previously published in hardback

978 1 6161 4593 4

$24.00 / £17.99

eBook

978 1 6161 4594 1

$22.50 / £16.99

Political Science • Corruption & Misconduct

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Tiger in the Sea

The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

By Eric Lindner

In September 1962, the fate of Flying Tiger flight 923 riveted the world. Bulletins interrupted radio and TV programs. Headlines shouted off newspapers from London to LA. Tiger in the Sea is a gripping tale of triumph, tragedy, unparalleled airmanship, and incredibly brave people from all walks of life. The author has pieced together the story—long hidden because of murky Cold War politics—through exhaustive research and reconstructed a true and inspiring tribute to the virtues of outside-the-box-thinking, teamwork, and hope.

Since 2015, attorney, businessman, and DC native Eric Lindner has been teaching Ethics in Action at Georgetown University, a course that dissects the NASA Challenger disaster. He’s married to Captain Murray’s daughter; they live on California’s Central Coast.

An inspiring, uplifting book, with multiple heroes. Many books could be written about similar plane crashes. Be thankful that this one was written.

—The New York Journal of Books

A riveting story of heroism and survival. Lindner does an amazing job of capturing the most harrowing experience anyone can go through… [He] ... makes the reader part of the ordeal rather than just an observer.

—Michael G. Walling, former Coast Guard officer and author of In the Event of a Water Landing

Lindner has really captured the “feel” of what it’s like to sit in an old Tiger aircraft... I was absolutely captivated!

—Capt. John Dickson, 38-year FTL/FedEx pilot (retired) and president of the Flying Tiger Line Pilots Association

One of the most remarkable sagas in aviation history now available in paperback!

Lyons Press

July 2023

360 pages

74 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7199 9

$19.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 3156 6

$26.95 / £20.99

eBook

978 1 4930 3157 3

$19.00 / £14.99

History • Military / Aviation

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California Vegan Inspiration and Recipes from the People and Places of the Golden State

By Sharon Palmer

Plant-powered dietitian Sharon Palmer tells the diverse story of California veganism with recipes showcasing local produce and celebrating the cultural roots, historical legacy, and future of plant-based pioneers in the state. California is where US vegan culture all began, and where a diverse group of innovators continue breaking new ground. From the first glimpses of California cuisine in the 1970s to today’s Silicon Valley start-ups revolutionizing the way America eats, the Golden State starts the veggie trends the rest of the country follows. Featuring over 100 plant-based recipes with full nutritional information and illustrated with original photography, California Vegan welcomes Californians into veganism and vegans all over the world into California.

Known as The Plant-Powered Dietitian, Sharon Palmer (MSFS, RDN) is one of the most widely recognized registered dietitians in the world. She is an accomplished writer, editor, blogger, author, speaker, and media expert, and has gained particular recognition for her expertise in plant-based nutrition. Living in the sustainability mecca of Ojai, California with her husband and two dogs, Sharon enjoys tending to her own organic garden, visiting the local farmers market, volunteering in local environmental organizations, and cooking for friends and family.

California Vegan is like a stroll through plant-based paradise. It is an inspiring compilation of stories that bring to life the people, places, and food traditions that are at the heart of our shifting food consciousness. Sharon transforms simple, wholesome plant foods into culinary creations that would delight the most discerning palates.

—Brenda Davis, registered dietician, author, speaker, and plant-based pioneer

The story of Californian veganism with over 100 recipes now as paperback!

Globe Pequot

July 2023

288 pages

198 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7021 3

$24.95 / £18.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 5050 5

$29.95 / £22.99

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$28.50 / £21.99

Cooking • Regional & Ethnic / American / Western States

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Informing with clarity, persuading with conviction.

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

Backlist highlights

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

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

Please see pages 23–25 for more information on the Brookings Institution Press backlist bestsellers.

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The Rise of the Global Middle Class

How the Search for a Good Life Can Change the World

By Homi Kharas

Homi Kharas is a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development, housed in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings.

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

Brookings Institution Press

November 2023

192 pages

Hardback

978 0 8157 4032 2

$28.00 / £21.99

eBook 978 0 8157 4033 9

$26.00 / £19.99

Business & Economics • Economic Conditions

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H ardback No n -Fiction LEAD TITLE Hardback Non-Fiction

Cover coming soon Photo by Jezael Melgoza on Unsplash.

Techlash

Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?

By Tom Wheeler

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

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

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

The case for balancing entrepreneurial innovation with the public good from one the foremaost expainers of technology.

Brookings Institution Press

December 2023

216 pages

7 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 0 8157 3993 7

$27.00 / £20.99

eBook

978 0 8157 3994 4

$25.00 / £18.95

Business & Economics • Free Enterprise & Capitalism

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The Justice Laboratory International Law in Africa

By Kerstin Bree Carlson

April 2022 • 178 pages

Paperback 978 0 8157 3813 8 • $38.99 / £30.00

eBook 978 0 8157 3814 5 • $30.99 / £23.99

Political Science • Human Rights

Fixer-Upper How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems

By Jenny Schuetz

February 2022 • 220 pages

Paperback

0 8157 3928 9 • $29.99 / £22.99

Political

The Constitution of Knowledge A Defense of Truth

By Jonathan Rauch

June 2021 • 318 pages

Hardback 978 0 8157 3886 2 • $27.99 / £21.99

eBook 978 0 8157 3887 9 • $26.50 / £19.99

Political Science • Political Process / Media & Internet

April

Ukraine’s Revolt, Russia’s Revenge

By Christopher M. Smith

Told from the perspective of a U.S. diplomat in Kyiv, this book is the story of Ukraine’s anti-corruption revolution in 2013, Russia’s intervention and invasion of that nation, and the limited role played by the United States. It puts into a readable narrative previously unpublished reporting by seasoned U.S. diplomatic and military professionals, a wealth of information on Ukrainian high-level and street-level politics, a broad analysis of the international context, and vivid descriptions of people and places in Ukraine during the EuroMaidan Revolution. The book also counters Russia’s disinformation about the revolution and America’s role in it.

March 2022 • 384 pages

Hardback 978 0 8157 3924 1 • $39.99 / £31.00

eBook 978 0 8157 3925 8 • $31.99 / £25.00

Political Science • International Relations / Diplomacy

Shifting Paradigms Growth,

Edited by Zia Qureshi and Cheonsik Woo

Global China Assessing China’s Growing Role

Edited by Tarun Chhabra; Rush Doshi and Ryan Hass

June 2021 • 428 pages Paperback

India and Asian Geopolitics The Past, Present

By Shivshankar Menon

Difficult Choices Taiwan’s Quest for Security and the Good Life

By Richard C. Bush

April 2021 • 429 pages

Political Science • World / Asian

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eBook 978 0 8157 3929 6 • $23.99 / £17.99

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Science • Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development

Finance, Jobs, and Inequality in the Digital Economy

2022 • 298 pages Paperback 978 0 8157 3900 5 • $34.99 / £27.00 eBook 978 0 8157 3901 2 • $27.99 / £21.99 Business & Economics • Government & Business

January

in the World

978 0 8157 3916 6

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Political Science • World / Asian

978 0 8157 3723 0 • $39.99 / £31.00 eBook 978 0 8157 3724 7 • $31.99 / £25.00

Science • World / Asian

2021 • 418 pages Paperback

Political

Paperback 978 0 8157 3833 6 • $32.99 / £25.00 eBook 978 0 8157 3834 3 • $25.99 / £19.99

The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence

Edited by Daniel W. Drezner; Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman

March 2021 • 351 pages

Paperback

Political

Democracies Divided The Global Challenge of Political Polarization

Edited by Thomas Carothers and Andrew O’Donohue

January 2019 • 320 pages

Paperback

Dance of the Trillions Developing Countries and Global Finance

By David Lubin

August 2018 • 160 pages

Paperback

978 0 8157 3674 5 • $34.99 / £27.00

eBook 978 0 8157 3675 2 • $27.99 / £21.99

Business & Economics • Development / Economic Development

China 2049 Economic Challenges of a Rising Global Power

Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy

By Francis J. Gavin Edited

David Dollar; Yiping Huang and Yang Yao

June 2020 • 442 pages Paperback

January 2020 • 322 pages

Paperback 978 0 8157 3791 9 • $31.99 / £25.00

eBook 978 0 8157 3792 6 • $24.99 / £18.99

Political Science • Security (National & International)

Moscow Rules What Drives Russia to Confront the West

By Keir Giles

January 2019 • 258 pages Paperback

The New Autocracy Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin’s Russia

Edited by Daniel

Treisman

February 2018 • 330 pages

eBook 978 0 8157 3244 0 • $27.99 / £21.99

Political Science • Political Process / Media & Internet

Bytes, Bombs, and Spies

The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations

Edited by Herbert Lin and Amy Zegart

January 2019 • 440 pages

Paperback 978 0 8157 3547 2 • $45.99 / £35.00

eBook 978 0 8157 3548 9 • $35.99 / £28.00

Political Science • Security (National & International)

The Soviet Mind Russian Culture under Communism

By Henry Hardy and Isaiah BerlinForeword

by Strobe

Talbott

October 2016 • 316 pages

Paperback 978 0 8157 2887 0 • $25.00 / £18.99

eBook 978 0 8157 2888 7 • $19.99 / £14.99

Political Science • World / Russian & Former Soviet Union

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Political Science • Geopolitics

978 0 8157 3574 8 •

eBook 978 0 8157 3575 5 • $27.99 / £21.99

$34.99 / £27.00

Political Science • World / Russian & Former Soviet Union

978 0 8157 3837 4 • $39.99 / £31.00

eBook 978 0 8157 3838 1 • $31.99 / £25.00

Science • Geopolitics

978 0

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Political Science • Political Economy

Mr. Putin Operative in the Kremlin

By Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy

April 2015 • 544 pages

Paperback

Political Science • World / Russian & Former Soviet Union

The Siberian Curse How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold

By Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy

May

Leading Change from the Middle A Practical Guide to Building Extraordinary Capabilities

By Jackson Nickerson

The Chechen Wars Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union?

By Matthew Evangelista

Pasteur’s Quadrant Basic Science and Technological Innovation

By Donald E. Stokes

August 1997 • 200 pages Paperback

Growing Artificial Societies Social Science From the Bottom Up

By Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell

Leading Change in a Web 2.1 World How ChangeCasting Builds Trust, Creates Understanding, and Accelerates Organizational Change By

Jackson Nickerson

September 2010 • 150 pages

Hardback 978 0 8157 0484 3 • $26.99 / £20.99

Paperback 978 0 8157 2542 8 • $20.99 / £15.99

eBook 978 0 8157 0485 0 • $15.99 / £11.99

Political Science • Public Affairs & Administration

The Regulatory Craft Controlling Risks, Solving Problems, and Managing Compliance

By Malcolm K. Sparrow

May

Balkan Tragedy Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War

By Susan L. Woodward

April 1995 • 556 pages

Paperback

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November 2003 • 332 pages

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Political Science • Public Affairs & Administration

REVOLUTION IT

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 author Backlist 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.

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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.

Industrial DevOps Build Better Systems Faster

By Dr. Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman

Shows organizations how to apply the theories and practices of DevOps to complex systems that combine software, hardware, and firmware.

IT Revolution Press

October 2023

320 pages

Trade paperback 978 1 9505 0879 2

$26.00 / £19.95

Technology & Engineering • Project Management

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Wrong Fit, Right Fit Why How We Work Matters More Than Ever

By Andre Martin

A guide for companies to attract and keep the best talent.

In Wrong Fit, Rigth Fit, organizational psychologist

Dr. Andre Martin shows companies how to better utilize touchpoints such as policies, communications, training, onboarding, performance, town halls, role descriptions, feedback, etc., to build a new path to worker engagement that is built on purpose, pride, progression, and profit .

Andre Martin is an organizational psychologist and talent management executive with 20+ years of experience in talent development.

Adaptive Ethics for Digital Transformation

A New Approach for Enterprise Leadership in the Digital Age (Featuring Frankenstein vs the Gingerbread Man

By Mark Schwartz

Guides through the current and historical ethical landscape of business.

Mark Schwartz explains why immediate change guided by ethics, is the only realistic option for business in the twenty-first century. Throughout the book, Schwartz covers everything from values, stakeholder engagement, employees, supply chain, environment, community, customers, marketing, and sustainability.

As an enterprise strategist at Amazon Web Services, Mark Schwartz works with leaders of the world’s largest companies on the challenges of digital transformation. He is a graduate of Yale and Wharton.

IT Revolution Press

September 2023 • 272 pages

Trade paperback

978 1 9505 0875 4 • $28.00 / £23.99

eBook

978 1 9505 0876 1 • $14.99 / £12.99

Business & Economics • Careers / General

IT Revolution Press

July 2023 • 288 pages

Paperback

978 1 9505 0871 6 • $28.00 / £23.99

eBook

978 1 950 50872 3 • $14.99 / £12.99

Business & Economics • Business Ethics

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Untapped Leadership Harnessing the Power of Underrepresented Leaders

By Jenny Vazquez-Newsum

With today’s top leadership books being written mostly by white men, aren’t we missing perspectives and contributions from leaders with additional challenges to overcome? Aren’t we missing the full picture of what leadership in the 21st century looks like?

Untapped Leadership examines strategies, capabilities, and contributions from leaders of color and marginalized backgrounds from all walks of life and career stages. Highlighting diverse stories and strategies, Jenny VazquezNewsum reveals a different kind of leadership, one that requires an advanced understanding of situational awareness, organizational dynamics, and sound decisionmaking. Untapped Leadership is the first step towards moving beyond behavioral or situational leadership models towards a more inclusive and impactful model of contextual leadership by expanding the discourse to include and value marginalized perspectives.

Jenny Vazquez-Newsum is a facilitator, researcher, and educator with a long-time interest in leadership. As a biracial Black/Latinx woman, the leadership journey has been bumpy, stimulating, challenging, and a life’s work. For the past two decades, Vazquez-Newsum has designed and delivered leadership training for hundreds of diverse leaders, from established executives at large corporations to high school students beginning their leadership journeys. She lives in Santa Monica, California.

Shows how everyone benefits from a more inclusive and impactful model of contextual leadership.

Prometheus

August 2023

200 pages

68 illustrations

Paperback

978 1 6338 8916 3

$21.95 / £16.99

eBook

978 1 6338 8917 0

$20.50 / £15.99

Business & Economics • Leadership

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Essential guides on horsemanship and authoritative titles in equestrian history

Eclipse Press is dedicated to the enjoyment and welfare of the horse. Publications range from practical aspects of hands-on horsemanship to equine art and retrospectives on the great Thoroughbred racehorses, rivalries, and races. Among the titles are more than twenty books in the “Thoroughbred Legends” series, featuring biographies of iconic horses such as Man o’ War, War Admiral, Nashua, Secretariat, Alydar, Affirmed, Ruffian, Spectacular Bid, and Seattle Slew. Eclipse authors include Edward L. Bowen, Timothy Capps, Bill Heller, Sue McConnell, the late John McEvoy, Lenny Schulman, Milt Toby, and Bonnie S. Urquhart.

Trade paperbacks publishing In the Your Guide to Horse Health Care and Management series in August 2023:

Understanding Basic Horse Care

152 pages • 87 illustrations

978 1 4930 7475 4 • $16.95 / £12.99

Understanding Equine Business Basics

126 pages • 7 illustrations

978 1 4930 7523 2 • $16.95 / £12.99

Understanding the Broodmare

150 pages • 35 illustrations

978 1 4930 7474 7 • $16.95 / £12.99

Understanding the Foal

126 pages • 44 illustrations

978 1 4930 7473 0 • $16.95 / £12.99

Understanding the Pony

118 pages • 49 illustrations

978 1 4930 7471 6 • $16.95 / £12.99

Understanding the Stallion

100 pages • 84 illustrations

978 1 4930 7736 6 • $16.95 / £12.99

Understanding Your Horse’s Behavior

144 pages • 46 illustrations

978 1 4930 7470 9 • $16.95 / £12.99

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Photo by Fabian Burghardt on Unsplash.

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

Backlist highlights

Top authors

Arthur Cotterell was formerly a principal at Kingston College in London, where a performing arts theater is named for him. He has spent many years combining senior educational management with historical research to write books on the ancient world and mythology. A respected author of more than thirty books, he has been published by Penguin and Oxford University Press. His credits include The Minoan World, The Penguin Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations, Ancient China, and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Mythology. He lives in Surrey, England, outside London.

Phil Gioia served two combat tours in Vietnam and was awarded two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts. 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.

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Crochet Impkins

Over a million possible combinations! Yes, really!

By Megan Lapp

Paperback Original

LEAD

Paperback O riginal

Bring your very own Impkin alive with hook and yarn.

Stackpole Books

November 2023

216 pages

460 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 0 8117 7160 3

$28.95 / £21.99

eBook 978 0 8117 7161 0

$27.50 / £20.99

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

By the same author:

Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend: 19 Designs Easy Cute Critters to Legendary Beasts

Stackpole Books • May 2023 • 256 pages • 784 colour illustrations

Paperback • 978 0 8117 7148 1 • $26.95 / £20.99

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Crochet Baby Blankets 13 Easy to Intermediate Designs

By Kristi Simpson

Welcome baby with a beautiful handmade blanket!

A crocheted blanket is the perfect gift for a new baby. The 10 designs in this book showcase a variety of stitches and techniques, but all are appropriate for a beginner to intermediate skill level. Crochet them in the color palettes shown, or use colors to match the nursery or your own favorite combinations.

Kristi Simpson is the author of many crochet design publications, including the popular Ultimate Crochet Nursery. Known for her fresh and modern style, Kristi’s patterns have been published in magazines, books, catalogues, and on-line venues.

Stackpole Books

July 2023 • 32 pages • 15 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 0 8117 7273 0 • $11.95 / £8.99

eBook 978 0 8117 7204 4 • $11.00 / £7.99

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

The New Knitting Stitch Dictionary

500 Patterns for Textures, Lace, Aran Cables, Colorwork, Motifs, Edgings and More

By Lydia Klös

An invaluable reference on your knitting bookshelf.

The New Knitting Stitch Dictionary features 500 innovative knitting stitch patterns. The stitches are divided into sections by type of stitch: texture, lace, cables, flower and leaf patterns, bobbles, lifted stitches, Fair Isle, intarsia, borders, and more. This is a reference stitch dictionary that any knitter would love to have on their craft shelf and will refer to for inspiration and ideas.

Lydia Klös is an avid knitter and knitwear designer, jewelry creator, and author.

Stackpole Books

July 2023 • 336 pages • 102 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 0 8117 7198 6 • $27.95 / £21.99

eBook 978 0 8117 7199 3 • $26.50 / £19.99

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Knitting

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The Art of Weaving

Master the Techniques, Understand the Weave Structures, Create Your Own Designs

By Betty Briand

This comprehensive guide to floor loom weaving begins with the basics—parts of the loom, how to wind your warp and dress your loom; how to read and weave drafts— but then goes so much farther, explaining the different types of weaves and how to read and weave from charts, and exploring a variety of weaves in depth. The author covers each topic in detail, with illustrations, photos, and charts to guide you. The first half of the book is devoted to the basics of weaving, and the second part teaches a variety of weave structures and how to use them and adapt them to whatever you want to make.

Betty Briand’s interest in textiles is rooted in childhood skills learned from her grandparents who were passionate about fiber arts: weaving, spinning, vegetable dyeing, knitting, and making ropes. After solid training from several instructors, she became a full-time weaving teacher. Today, she works with students in her ARTissage workshop/school located in Chinon in Touraine, France, while continuing her own explorations in weaving.

The Art of Weaving is extensive in its scope, and a reference book appropriate for all skill levels.

Stackpole Books

September 2023

284 pages

450 illustrations

Hardback

978 0 8117 7184 9

$39.95 / £31.00

eBook

978 0 8117 7185 6

$38.00 / £29.00

Crafts & Hobbies • Weaving & Spinning

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Brush Pen Calligraphy

By Hamane Higashi

Makes beautiful hand-lettering easy for anyone.

Step-by-step instructions show you how to use brush pens to make professional-looking letters and numbers. Five styles of modern calligraphy, plus ways to personalize your designs. Try more advanced techniques combining lettering and illustrations, and the many project suggestions for cards, invitations, signs, and more.

Hamane Higashi is a calligraphy artist and teacher in Japan, and owner of Calligraphy Factory. Follow her on Instagram @calligraphyfactory.

Stackpole Books

July 2023 • 96 pages • 700 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 0 8117 7258 7 • $22.95 / £17.99

Art • Techniques / Calligraphy

Tales from the Wine Floor 100 Questions Asked of a Somm

By James Quaile, illustrated by John O’Brien

“The Wine Guy” answers real questions asked by regular wine-drinking people.

Unlike most books on wine nowadays, Tales from the Wine Floor is geared toward true beginners— those who enjoy wine but lack the most basic understanding of it. Illustrated with amusing drawings by New Yorker cartoonist John O’Brien, novice wine enthusiasts will find Tales from the Wine Floor informative yet entertaining.

James “Jimmy” Quaile has had an illustrious 40-year career as a restaurateur, musician, educator, wine blogger, and Certified Sommelier. He has a passion for sharing his wine knowledge with humor and wit.

Lyons Press

December 2023 • 192 pages • 10 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 7465 5 • $24.95 / £18.99

Cooking • Beverages / Alcoholic / Wine

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Image from The Art of Weaving, page 35

The world-leading publisher of new nautical fiction

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

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

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

Top authors Backlist highlights

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

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Droits of the Crown

A John Pearce Adventure, Vol. 18

By David Donachie

Hardback Fiction

The brand-new installment of Donachie’s much-beloved Napoleonic War series takes John Pearce to the Corsican bay.

McBooks Press

November 2023

320 pages

Part of the John Pearce Adventure series

Hardback with dust jacket

978 1 4930 7683 3

$32.95 / £25.00

eBook

978 1 4930 7684 0

$12.99 / £9.99

Fiction • Sea Stories

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By the Mast Divided

A John Pearce Adventure, Vol. 1

November 2023 • 512 pages

B-format paperback

978 1 4930 7397 9 • $12.95 / £9.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7398 6 • $5.99 / £4.99

London, 1793: Young firebrand John Pearce, on the run from the authorities, is illegally press-ganged from a tavern into brutal life aboard HMS Brilliant, a frigate on its way to war. Shipboard life is hard, brutal, and dangerous. But Pearce is not alone; he is drawn to a disparate group of men pressed alongside him who eventually form an exclusive gun crew, the Pelicans, with Pearce their elected leader.

The Pelicans find solidarity in facing together the cruelty of their hard-nosed captain, Barclay, and the daily threat of bullying, flogging, and even murder. The one light on the horizon is the captain’s wife, Emily, who is also aboard and new to life at sea. During an action-packed two weeks, as HMS Brilliant chases a French privateer across the English Channel, Pearce discovers the British Navy is a world in which he can prosper, and he and the Pelicans form friendships that will last a lifetime.

On a Particular Service

A John Pearce Adventure, Vol. 14

November 2023 • 352 pages

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1796: Lieutenant John Pearce is heading home aboard a hospital ship crammed with human cargo, yet the journey is far from plain sailing. Evading capture by an Algerine warship, Pearce attempts to save his disparate band of friends, the Pelicans, from being pressed into service on a British frigate—only for the group to risk being hanged for desertion once home.

While using his cunning to protect his friends, his clandestine relationship with widow Emily Barclay becomes more complicated. In a whirlwind of forged wills, devious trades, contrived murders, and dangerous spy missions, Pearce does not know whom to trust. All he can hope to do is survive.

A Treacherous Coast

A John Pearce Adventure, Vol. 13

November 2023 • 352 pages

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Winter 1795: Lieutenant John Pearce, reckoning to have finally ditched his old enemy, Admiral Hotham, has found a new one in Henry Digby, previously a friend. Meanwhile, Pearce’s pregnant and recently widowed lover is adamant they cannot be seen together for the sake of their unborn child as she seeks respectability in society.

Aboard HMS Flirt as part of the squadron led by Horatio Nelson, Pearce and his Pelicans soon join a reconnaissance mission which results in the destruction of a key French battery—though the success is short-lived. In raids ashore, split loyalties, and bloody sea fights, Pearce must show bravery and resourcefulness to ensure his survival and return to Emily. But the headstrong lieutenant is faced with immense danger, not only from the enemy but also from his own captain. Only luck and Pearce’s fierce appetite for battle can save them from the perils ahead.

A Close Run Thing

A John Pearce Adventure, Vol. 15

November 2023 • 380 pages

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1796: Lieutenant John Pearce is hiding in the smugglers’ hub of Gravelines with his mysterious companion, known only to him as Oliphant, trapped in French territory with no way out. Although they find a crew willing to take them to England, they discover on the journey that Pearce’s old enemies, the Tolland brothers, are still active on the route, and may have been responsible for the murder of Catherine Carruthers.

Meanwhile, being on his homeland brings Pearce closer to Emily Barclay and their young son, Adam, but their tumultuous past has left their relationship fragile and the constant need for discretion is an additional strain. Then, just as things may be looking up, it seems Henry Dundas has another role for him and Oliphant: a mission to northeast Spain.

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

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

A Shred of Honour

A Markham of the Marines Novel, Vol. 1

Irishman, papist, reputed coward: Lieutenant George Markham is a man with something to prove. The death of his commander leaves the trained foot soldier with a band of surly conscripts under his command aboard His Britannic Majesty’s frigate Hebe. As the winter of 1793 comes to the Mediterranean coast of France, Markham will have to prove to his troublemaking men that he is a worthy officer of Marines . . . or die in the attempt.

Honour Redeemed

A Markham of the Marines Novel, Vol. 2

As a battle-hardened veteran of the war in America and against the French, Markham has not only won over his men but also a reputation for trouble. So his superiors assign him to a suicide mission battling the French over the island of Corsica. Surrounded by spies, traitors, and rivals, Markham’s only hope lies in the men under his command, whom the top brass believe are the scum of the earth. Enemies abound, in both French blue and British red.

Honour Be Damned

A Markham of the Marines Novel, Vol. 3

After completing the siege of a French fortress in Corsica, Markham and his men are assigned to the sloop Sylphide under the impetuous Captain Germain. Before long, Germain’s foolhardy hunt for glory throws Markham and his men into desperate ship-to-ship action. Fortunately, fighting hand to hand is what the battle-hardened Marines do best. Like Markham, Germain has been branded a coward, but in his zeal to restore his good name he sets Markham on another, more perilous venture. This time, Markham must go ashore to escort a group of French royalists on a secret mission.

November 2023 • 234 pages Trade

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The Contraband Shore

A Contraband Shore Novel, Vol. 1

1787: Captain Edward Brazier is on a mission. Recently paid off from his frigate and comfortable with prize money, he is headed to Deal to propose marriage to young widow Betsey Langridge. But all does not go well. Between Betsey’s brother and guardian Henry Tulkington prohibiting the match, and Brazier being marked out for trouble by a local smuggling gang, his plans fall into disarray. And when it slowly emerges that there may have been a decades-old injustice closer to home, Brazier is caught up in more than he had bargained for.

A Lawless Place

A Contraband Shore Novel, Vol. 2

Edward Brazier is enlisted to investigate the smuggling activity in Deal. However, with Betsey now locked into a loveless marriage and living as a prisoner, Brazier is distracted from his mission. Although he manages to foil Betsey’s husband’s plan to steal her away to her familyowned plantation in the West Indies, Brazier finds himself taken captive. Only his ingenuity and his cunning use of subterfuge will help engineer his escape and allow him to infiltrate the smuggling gangs of Deal in a determined bid to unmask those in control. But with suspicion raised around him and his enemies banding together, can Brazier survive long enough to bring those responsible to justice?

Blood Will Out

A Contraband Shore Novel, Vol. 3

Edward Brazier is wounded and in desperate need of medical attention, but those from whom he could seek help have no idea where he is—although neither do his enemies. With his beloved Betsey currently imprisoned by her brother Henry, who is considering committing her to an asylum to take her off his hands, time is running out for Brazier to rescue her and end the tyranny of the local smuggling ring of Deal once and for all.

Hawkwood

Fourteenth-century Italy: The Hundred Years’ War is over and the country is in upheaval as desperate cities struggle against both each other and venal Papal rule. Unable to rely on their own citizens to fight their battles, the cities and Popes are forced to pay vast amounts of money to mercenary captains to fight on their behalf.

Newly knighted Sir John Hawkwood is headed for France to make his fortune. A valiant Englishman, shrewd and relentless on the battlefield, he soon finds himself fighting for and against any state of Italy prepared to pay handsomely. If none will pay, he and the White Company brutally seize what they desire. It is a world of massacre and pillage in which life is less than cheap and no one can be trusted. To survive, a man has to be quick-thinking, fleet of foot, and strong in his sword arm . . . and Hawkwood is such a man.

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October 2023 • 384 pages Trade paperback 978 1 4930 7407 5 • $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7408 2 • $5.99 / £4.99 October 2023 • 352 pages Trade paperback 978 1 4930 7405 1 • $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7406 8 • $5.99 / £4.99 October 2023 • 416 pages Trade paperback 978 1 4930 7409 9 • $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7410 5 • $5.99 / £4.99 September 2023 • 384 pages Trade paperback 978 1 4930 7369 6 • $24.95 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 4930 7370 2 • $5.99 / £4.99

The Pillars of Rome

A Roman Republic Novel, Vol. 1

In a dark cave lit by flickering torches, two young boys appeal to the famed Roman oracle for a glimpse into their future. The Sybil draws a blood-red shape of an eagle with wings outstretched: an omen of death. As they flee from the cave in fear, Aulus and Lucius make an oath of loyalty until death. Thirty years on and Aulus, now Rome’s most successful general, faces his toughest battle. Barbarian rebels are demanding the withdrawal of Roman legions from their land in return for Aulus’ captured wife. Meanwhile Lucius has risen to a high rank in the Senate. But when he is suspected of arranging a murder, the very foundations of the Republic are threatened. Lucius and Aulus find themselves on very different sides of the conflict—perhaps the prophecy of the eagle will come true after all.

December 2023 • 526 pages

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Vengeance

The Last Roman, Vol. 1

Fifth-century Byzantium: Corruption is rife and the empire is in turmoil when Flavius Belisarius is expected to join his father’s cohort to help protect the border of the Eastern Roman Empire. Flavius’s father, Decimus, is the governor of Dorostorum city and has two goals: to keep out the Sklaveni barbarians across the Danube and to expose the deep roots of corruption. When treachery leads to death in the Belisarius family, Decimus’s reputation is damaged.

With his life changed forever, Flavius swears vengeance on the man who betrayed his father and begins a journey from which there is no way back.

Honour

The Last Roman, Vol. 2

Flavius Belisarius is barely eighteen and already commander of the cavalry patrolling the Persian frontier. A brilliant soldier but a poor schemer, Flavius needs to be both in order to survive the febrile politics of the Eastern Roman Empire.

When his friend, Petrus Sabbatius, uses trickery to elevate himself to the position of co-emperor, Flavius finds himself embroiled in an explosive venture of machinations and warfare. The brave general must battle against the deadly Sassanids and protect the co-emperor from his own subjects who are out for blood.

Triumph

The Last Roman, Vol. 3

The emperor Justinian is determined to reunite the whole of the Roman Empire and his best general, Flavius Belisarius, is poised to invade Italy. Flavius and his men march north unopposed until the local senators of Naples refuse to surrender and a bloody assault ensues. Rome, hearing of the fate of Naples, yields the city to Flavius, but before long the Goths arrive and stage a brutal attack which Flavius’s army only just survives.

Besieged and mired in a cesspit of corruption, Byzantium’s greatest general must navigate a world rife with deceit and brutality where only the most cutthroat survive.

September 2023 • 416 pages

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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.

Backlist highlights

Top authors

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

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

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Basic Illustrated Edible Wild Plants and Useful Herbs

Third Edition

By Jim Meuninck

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

This book distills years of knowledge into an affordable and portable guide. You’ll discover how to identify and gather more than 100 of the most nutritious wild plants and useful herbs in the contiguous United States, prepare delicious recipes using your wild harvest, and determine the identity of poisonous plants and poisonous look-alikes.

Jim Meuninck is a biologist and counselor and has studied the use of wild plants as food and medicine in North America, Europe, Central America, Japan, and China for more than thirty years. He lives on the shores of Eagle Lake, in Edwardsburg, Michigan.

Falcon Guides

July 2023 • 176 pages • 341 illustrations

Part of the Basic Illustrated series

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 6812 8 • $18.95 / £14.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6813 5 • $18.00 / £13.99

Nature • Plants / General

Foraging Wild Edible Plants of North America

More than 150 Delicious Recipes Using Nature’s Edibles, Second Edition

By Christopher Nyerges

A full-color field and feast guide with images to the most common edible wild plants.

From alyssum to watercress, chicory to purslane, this book provides everything you need to know about the most commonly found wild greens with over 200 recipes. Fully revised and updated, it is the ideal companion for hikers, campers, and anyone who enjoys eating the good food of the earth.

Christopher Nyerges, co-founder of the School of Self-reliance, has led wild food walks for thousands of students since 1974. He has authored 10 books on wild foods, survival, and self-reliance and teaches where he lives in Los Angeles County, California.

Falcon Guides

July 2023 • 240 pages • 397 illustrations

Part of the Foraging series

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 6447 2 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6448 9 • $23.50 / £17.99

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Hiking Rocky Mountain National Park

Including Indian Peaks Wilderness, Eleventh Edition

By Kent Dannen

Lace up your boots and sample more than 450 miles of trails in Rocky Mountain National Park and the Indian Peaks Wilderness. Veteran hiker Kent Dannen introduces you to memorable trails highlighting the natural splendor of the Rockies. Each hike description includes detailed information on trail access, best times for hiking, and points of interest along the way.

This new edition is fully updated and revised, with special sections on what to wear, carry, and eat and invaluable advice on wilderness ethics and safety. Its smaller size and package, complete with illustrations, makes this guide an indispensable companion to hiking and backpacking in Rocky Mountain National Park and the Indian Peaks Wilderness.

Kent Dannen has guided hikers over the trails of Rocky Mountain National Park and Indian Peaks for more than thirty years. He is a former contributing editor of Backpacker Magazine and freelances as a writerphotographer. He is the recipient of the US Department of Agriculture Certificate of Appreciation for his outstanding volunteer services in developing educational materials that help manage and protect the Indian Peaks Wilderness. Kent lives in Allenspark, Colorado.

A comprehensive, easy-to-use field guide to forty of the best hikes

Rocky Mountain National Park has to offer, complete with black-andwhite line art illustrations.

Falcon Guides

July 2023

308 pages

101 illustrations

Part of the Regional Hiking series

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 6777 0

$19.95 / £14.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6778 7

$19.00 / £14.99

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Lefty Kreh’s Fly Fishing in Salt Water

Third Edition

By Lefty Kreh, foreword by Blane Chocklett

Lefty Kreh’s original edition of Fly Fishing in Salt Water pioneered a new territory for fly fishers. With over thirty thousand copies sold and the content fully updated, revised, and expanded, this third edition is the saltwater fly fisher’s bible, based on first-hand experience by an acknowledged master. In clear, practical terms and with helpful photographs and line drawings, Lefty Kreh’s Fly Fishing in Salt Water treats the techniques needed to catch all the major saltwater species—bonefish, tarpon, striped bass, bluefish, salmon, permit, snook, sharks, cobia, tuna, billfish, and more.

The book shows how to fish from boats and how to wade the flats, and fully explains all the tackle needed and how to use it for specific jobs—the rods, the lines and leaders, and the flies, all in full colour. Lefty provides superb advice about how to make the long casts necessary for fishing the fly in salt water, how to “tease” sailfish and other large fish to within fly-casting range, how to chum, and how to tie the necessary knots for saltwater fishing. Chapter topics include Knots and Leaders, Flies, Tackle, Inshore Fly Fishing, and Boats.

Lefty Kreh was an internationally known and respected master in the field of fly fishing. He taught fly casting and fly-fishing techniques since the 1950s, and he fished in all fifty states, every province in Canada, and in Iceland and much of Europe, South America, and the South Pacific. Lefty was the author of Presenting the Fly, Fly Fishing in Salt Water, Saltwater Fly Patterns, Practical Fishing Knots, Solving Casting Problems, and 101 Fly-Fishing Tips. He lived in Maryland, USA.

Lyons Press

July 2023

340 pages

166 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7200 2

$22.95 / £17.99

eBook 978 1 4930 7519 5

$21.50 / £16.99

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The saltwater fly fisher’s bible.

Practical Celestial Navigation

By Susan P. Howell

The best resource for self-learners and a reference for old celestial hands getting back in practice.

Praised by The Practical Sailor as “a first-class piece of work,” Susan P. Howell’s Practical Celestial Navigation was developed for Mystic Seaport’s navigation courses. This third edition retains the step-by-step format of the original, along with an abundance of diagrams and practice problems.

Susan P. Howell graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1968 with a math and astronomy background. She worked for the planetarium at Mystic Seaport and as planetarium lecturer at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In 1983, Susan became a member of the Board of Directors of The American Sail Training Association. She died in the sudden sinking of the British barque Marques during a squall en route from Bermuda to Halifax on June 3, 1984.

Sheridan House

August 2023 • 276 pages • 146 illustrations

Paperback, comb-bound

978 1 4930 6969 9 • $34.95 / £27.00

eBook

978 1 4930 7701 4 • $33.00 / £25.00

Transportation • Navigation

Elements of Yacht Design

The Original Edition of the Classic Book on Yacht Design, 2023 Edition

By Norman L. Skene, introduction by Maynard Bray

One of the most famous books on yacht design ever written, this reprint includes the last revisions made by Skene himself.

At last the book is again available to the many boatbuilders, aspiring naval architects, and sailors who need it for frequent reference. The index has been completely revised and expanded to make it more useful for today’s readers.

Norman L. Skene was one of North America’s foremost yacht designers. This book is his legacy. Maynard Bray is a maritime historian, the author of several books on ships, and a contributing editor of WoodenBoat magazine.

Sheridan House

November 2023 • 256 pages • 213 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7601 7 • $19.95 / £14.99

eBook 978 1 4930 7602 4 • $19.00 / £14.99

Sports & Recreation • Sailing

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On the Nose

A Lifelong Obsession with Yosemite’s Most Iconic Climb

By Hans Florine and Jayme Moye

A rare look inside the adrenaline-charged world of big-wall climbing.

The Nose is the most famous rock climb on earth. Climbers didn’t figure out how to scale it until 1958— five years after Everest. In 1989, a young climber named Hans Florine attempted to ascend the Nose, an effort that took him 46 hours. He would go on to climb it an unprecedented 101 times (and counting) and whittle his total effort down to a mere 2.5 hours, a feat that has no parallel in modern outdoor sport.

In addition to his climbing accolades, Hans Florine has written climbing books and articles for Rock and Ice and Climbing. He is manager and shareholder at Touchstone Climbing & Fitness, the largest climbing gym chain in the US. Jayme Moye is a freelance journalist. In 2014, she was named Travel Writer of the Year by the North American Travel Journalists Association.

Falcon Guides

December 2023 • 240 pages • 25 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7720 5 • $19.95 / £14.99

Nature • Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains

Whatever You Do, Don’t Run True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, Updated Edition

By Peter Allison

In the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of a safari guide.

A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “only food runs!” Now with a new introduction and new material from the author.

Peter Allison, originally from Sydney, Australia, is a safari guide who has spent much of the last twelve years leading wildlife-viewing and ecotourism trips in Africa, mostly Botswana.

His misadventures make Whatever You Do, Don’t Run an absorbing read. . . . The material is rich, and Allison is a gifted storyteller. And the only thing stranger than African fiction is African truth.—National Geographic Adventure

Lyons Press

December 2023 • 288 pages • 27 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 3538 0 • $19.95 / £14.99

eBook 978 1 4930 7836 3 • $19.00 / £14.99

Travel • Africa / General

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The Hockey Book of Why (and Who, What, When, Where, and How)

The Answers to Questions You’ve Always Wondered about the Fastest Game on Ice

By Martin Gitlin

Why is fighting more accepted in hockey than in other sports? Who inspired the name of the Stanley Cup? How do players on the bench know when to make line changes? When did goalies begin wearing masks? What teams made up the NHL’s Original Six? What is an “odd man rush”?

This book provides a slew of questions and in-depth answers concerning the traditions, rules, records, and history of hockey. From the early days of hockey to the hugely popular game seen today, Martin Gitlin answers questions even the most knowledgeable fan may have pondered. Whether the topic is goalies or coaches, famous “firsts” or memorable moments, if a Who, What, When, Where, Why, or How? question is on your mind, this is the book for you.

Martin Gitlin is a veteran author and sportswriter. His Powerful Moments in Sports: The Most Significant Sporting Events in American History earned critical acclaim. Gitlin won numerous awards as a sports journalist from 1991 to 2002, including first place for general excellence from the Associated Press for his coverage of the Indians–Braves World Series in 1995. AP also selected him as one of the top four feature writers in Ohio. Gitlin lives in North Olmsted, Ohio.

A one-stop shop to all your questions on ice hockey.

Lyons Press

October 2023

176 pages

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7092 3

$19.95 / £14.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7093 0

$19.00 / £14.99

Sports & Recreation • Reference

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Long Run to Glory

The Story of the Greatest Marathon in Olympic History and the Women Who Made It Happen

By Stephen Lane

On the morning of August 5, 1984, four of the greatest marathoners of all time lined up for one of the most important and long-awaited races in history. By then, they had dominated their competition for at least five years, upending a century’s worth of preconceived notions of what marathoners could do. By decade’s end, they had lowered the world record a total of 13 minutes, won 27 major marathon titles, and swept every Olympic and World Championship held in the 1980s. And, in their careers, only once did all four—American Joan Benoit, Norwegians Grete Waitz and Ingrid Kristiansen, and Portugal’s Rosa Mota—square off in the same race: at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, in the first-ever Women’s Olympic Marathon.

Such was their talent that Benoit, the world record holder, entered the race as the underdog. She’d had knee surgery in April, and no one, least of all Benoit herself, was certain she could hold up for 26 miles against her three rivals. Waitz, the former world record holder, was the favorite—she had destroyed the field at the 1983 World Championships and had never lost a marathon she had finished. Kristiansen, who had beaten Waitz twice in the summer of 1984 (albeit at shorter distances), was considered the fastest woman in the race: she held world records at 5,000m and 10,000m, and would break Benoit’s marathon record in 1985. Mota had beaten Kristiansen at the 1982 European marathon championships and was already earning a reputation for raising her level in the biggest races.

Stephen Lane, the meet director for the Adrian Martinez Classic (considered the top professional track and field meet for distance runners on the East Coast), has coached track and field for twenty-five years. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Lyons Press

November 2023

272 pages

Hardback with dust jacket

978 1 4930 7302 3

$28.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7760 1

$27.50 / £20.99

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Benoit, Waitz, Kristiansen, Mota— and the story of the first women’s Olympic Marathon.

The Game That Saved the NHL

The Broad Street Bullies, the Soviet Red Machine, and Super Series ‘76

By Ed Gruver, foreword by Joe Watson

The story of an epic ice-hockey game at the height of the Cold War.

In late 1975 and early 1976, two of the Soviet Union’s long-dominant national hockey teams traveled to North America to play an eight-game series against the best teams in the National Hockey League. The culmination of the “Super Series” was HC CSKA Moscow’s faceoff against the reigning champion Flyers in Philadelphia on January 11, 1976.

Ed Gruver is a sportswriter and has authored numerous books on US-American sports. His work has appeared in several US magazines.

Bridge for Everyone

A Step-by-Step Guide to Rules, Bidding, and Play of the Hand

By D. W. Crisfield, photographs by Stephen Gorman and Eli Burakian

The visual guide that bridge players need.

Bridge is a famously challenging card game, one that’s next to impossible to learn without a whole host of visual aids. Bridge for Everyone takes a step-bystep, visual approach to explaining the game clearly to beginners and intermediates. With 400 full-color photos, it explains the rules and the fundamentals of bidding, play, defense, and scoring. Not only does it give you what it takes to hold your ground no matter what your hand but also offers strategies for winning with more advanced bidding techniques.

D. W. Crisfield has taught bridge for the past fifteen years. She recently won the Miles NLM Pairs at the North American Bridge Championships held in Boston.

Lyons Press

December 2023 • 256 pages • 400 illustrations

Lyons Press

December 2023

Hardback

• 240 pages • 16 illustrations

978 1 4930 7497 6 • $29.95 / £22.99

Sports & Recreation • Hockey

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 6957 6

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978 1 4930 6958 3

• $24.95 / £18.99

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Games & Activities • Card Games / Bridge

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Eldercare 101

A Practical Guide to Later Life Planning, Care, and Wellbeing, Updated Edition

By Mary Jo Saavedra

The updated and revised toolbox to eldercare.

This important toolbox of critical resources and guidance assists families and eldercare professionals with the navigation of the advanced aging of loved ones and/or clients based on the Six Pillars of Aging Wellbeing. Mary Jo Saavedra adds salient new content that reflects the changing landscape of aging in today’s culturally-shifting, technological, and pandemic world. The book’s online resources have been updated and supplemented with many new tech products on the market that support elders.

Mary Jo Saavedra, MAIS, CMC, CAPS, CSA is a practicing gerontologist and aging life care manager in Portland, Oregon.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023 • 360 pages • 4 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7285 8 • $35.00 / £27.00

eBook 978 1 5381 7286 5 • $33.00 / £25.00

Family & Relationships • Eldercare

Understanding Ruptured Mother–Daughter Relationships

Guiding the Adult Daughter’s Healing Journey through the Estrangement Energy Cycle

By Khara Croswaite Brindle

With this resource, clinicians and clients will feel better equipped to tackle the emotional rollercoaster that is Estrangement Energy.

Exploring the stages of estrangement between adult daughters and their mothers, this book illustrates different stages of estrangement through the Estrangement Energy Cycle and client stories and provides practical tools to therapeutically support clients.

Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS, is a TEDx Speaker, Licensed Mental Health Therapist, and Burnout Consultant in Denver, Colorado. Khara enjoys various roles as a serial entrepreneur, published author, professional speaker, and professor.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023 • 160 pages • 29 illustrations

Paperback

978 1 5381 7403 6 • $19.00 / £14.99

eBook 978 1 5381 7404 3$17.50 / £12.99

Family & Relationships • Parenting / Parent & Adult Child

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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

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Joe Cuhaj grew up in New Jersey as a space fanatic. He would skip school to watch every launch and recovery from the late Mercury missions to the final Skylab mission all while building and flying model rockets. Cuhaj is a Navy veteran and former radio broadcaster turned author and freelance writer.

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.

PROMETHEUS BOOKS IMPRINT INTRODUCTION

Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines

Brushed Aside The Untold Story of Women in Art

By Noah Charney, foreword by Ingrid Rowland, afterword by Marina Abramovic

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

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

Noah Charney is the internationally bestselling author of more than a dozen books, translated into fourteen languages, including The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art, which was nominated for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. He is a professor of art history specializing in art crime, and has taught for Yale University, Brown University, the American University of Rome, and the University of Ljubljana. He lives in Slovenia.

The herstory of art.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

240 pages

45 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 1 5381 7099 1

$45.00 / £35.00

eBook

978 1 5381 7100 4

$42.50 / £33.00

Art • Women Artists

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INTER NATIONAL AUTHOR

Everyone’s Gone to the Moon

July 1969, Life on Earth, and the Epic Voyage of Apollo 11

By Joe Cuhaj

The world stopped, watching in awe as the crew of Apollo 11 completed their mission. In that moment, almost everyone had virtually gone to the moon as people around the world gazed in wonderment at the grainy black-and-white images of Neil Armstrong taking that first step onto the surface of another world. But it was a fleeting moment and just as quickly, the moment was gone—wars raged on, protestors filled the streets, and average Americans went back to their daily lives.

Everyone’s Gone to the Moon is a week-by-week journey through July 1969, one of the most pivotal months in human history—in space and here on Earth. Joe Cuhaj follows the crew of Apollo 11 and NASA as they prepare for the historic first lunar landing alongside the major global events buried beneath headlines covering the historic space mission. Interwoven with the story of Apollo 11 are the events on our home planet that made an equally important impact on who we were then and who we are today: the Life of Prince Charles was threatened by a terrorist attack in Wales; the storm dubbed the Ohio Fireworks Derecho ripped through the Midwest, killing dozens; the assassination of Kenyan Economic Minister Tom Myoba (of which Barack Obama Sr. was a key witness) undercut a nation just learning to stand on its own; Senator Ted Kennedy was involved in a mysterious accident in Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts; ARPANET, the first real “Internet” was unveiled; Monty Python was born; John Lennon and Paul McCartney released “Give Peace a Chance” during escalated Vietnam War tensions; Midnight Cowboy stunned the Academy Awards; and much more.

Joe Cuhaj grew up in New Jersey as a space fanatic. He is a Navy veteran and former radio broadcaster turned author and freelance writer.

A vivid new perspective on the month that launched humanity into the future.

Prometheus

December 2023

232 pages

22 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 6338 8881 4

$27.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 6338 8882 1

$26.50 / £19.99

History • United States / 20th Century

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Psycho Boys

How a Unit of Refugees, Artists, and Professors Fought Back against the Third Reich

By Beverley Driver Eddy

A rarely heard story of a group of allied WWII soldiers trained in psychological warfare.

Stackpole Books

December 2023

224 pages

36 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 0 8117 7362 1

$27.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 0 8117 7363 8

$26.50 / £19.99

History • Military / World War II

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Land of War

A History of European Warfare from Achilles to Putin

By William Nester

An epic odyssey from Europe’s mythic origins through its latest violent conflicts.

Stackpole Books

July 2023

520 pages

54 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 0 8117 7248 8

$39.95 / £31.00

eBook

978 0 8117 7249 5

$38.00 / £29.00

History • Military / General

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Warplane

How the Military Reformers Birthed the A-10

By Hal Sundt

The A-10 is the Air Force’s unlikely success story, an airplane designed to support the Army, and one that ground troops came to venerate.

Inspired by the biography of a tank-busting German pilot in World War II, the engineering and design of the A-10 fell to Pierre Sprey, a precocious civilian who had enrolled at Yale when he was just 15 years old, and now, barely 30, was exiled to a Pentagon backwater with little, if any, supervision. The result was one of the finest military aircraft ever built, a plane essentially constructed around a 19.5-foot, 4,000-pound cannon that fired 30mm depleted uranium bullets at a blistering rate. Looking like it was built from discarded airplane parts, it was probably the ugliest combat aircraft ever built, thus the “Warthog” appellation. But it was also an incredibly reliable ground attack aircraft and despite repeated attempts to replace it with stealth aircraft and drones, over 280 A-10s remain in service today, serviced by dedicated and imaginative engineers and maintainers.

This is the story of intra-service rivalries, Pentagon obsessions with speed and stealth over tactical simplicity, and an aircraft that shows no sign of obsolescence as it nears fifty years in service.

Hal Sundt is a writer from Minnesota. He received his MFA in non-fiction writing from Columbia University, where he also taught in the Undergraduate Writing Program, among other universities and writing centers in New York City. He is currently a visiting assistant professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Oberlin College. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Ringer, The Bitter Southerner, The American Scholar, and elsewhere.

A history of the A-10 “Warthog,” one of the finest military aircraft ever built.

Lyons Press

December 2023

256 pages

28 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 6771 8

$29.95 / £22.99

History • Military / Aviation

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America’s Youngest Ambassador

The Cold War Story of Samantha Smith’s Lasting Message of Peace

By Lena Nelson

An important message for young people who strive for change, both locally and worldwide.

Down East Books

August 2023

240 pages

26 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 6847 5020 7

$26.95 / £20.99

Biography & Autobiography • Social Activists

61 ROWMANINTERNATIONAL.COM HISTORY

The Last Days of the Afghan Republic

A Doomed Evacuation Twenty Years in the Making

By Arsalan Noori and Noah Coburn

Within days in August 2021, U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and an insurgency threw out a government the international community had spent 20 years and billions of dollars supporting. A government that claimed to stand for women’s rights was replaced by one that did not allow girls to attend secondary school. The world watched for two weeks as crowds rushed the airport, bodies fell from planes, and a baby was handed to a Marine over a barbed wire wall. The agony of lives so clearly destroyed felt like images seen in the wake of natural disasters. But this was not a natural disaster. It was completely avoidable.

Part memoir and part history, The Last Days of the Afghan Republic tells this story through the experiences of Arsalan, Fatima, Zeinab, and Najeeb: a scholar, a doctor, a student, and a translator. These young men and women had bought into the promise of the international intervention, that if they worked hard and believed in democracy and human rights, Afghanistan could become a new country. Their lives also tell the story of Afghanistan over the past thirty years. They recount, from the ground up, the political decisions on the American side that led to the “forever war,” how Afghan political partners squandered opportunities, and how the U.S. presence unevenly reshaped Afghan society.

Arsalan Noori is a scholar and social science researcher who has worked with the international community for over 15 years.

Noah Coburn is a socio-cultural anthropologist and a leading authority on the shifting political landscape in Afghanistan.

How the evacuation forced four Afghans them from their homes, divided their families, and changed the course of their lives forever.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023

272 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7808 9

$35.00 / £27.00

eBook

978 1 5381 7809 6

$33.00 / £25.00

Social Science • Anthropology / Cultural

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INTER NATIONAL AUTHOR

Red Cloud and the Indian Trader

The Remarkable Friendship of the Sioux Chief and JW Dear in the Last Days of the Frontier

By Marilyn Dear Nelson and Chris Nelson

The story of a friendship during the most turbulent, violent, and controversial periods in the history of the American West.

This book is about two men caught up in the momentous events of the Wild West in the 1870s and 80s. It is a story about the opening-up of the West and the process of nation building, driven by great vision, sacrifice, and human endeavor. But it is also a story of mismanagement, avarice, corruption, bigotry, extreme violence, and injustice.

Marilyn Dear Nelson grew up with stories, artifacts, and stereotype images from her great-grandfather’s life in the Wild West. When she and her husband Chris retired to London they started to research his extraordinary life.

TwoDot

December 2023 • 320 pages • 66 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7390 0 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook 978 1 4930 7391 7 • $23.50 / £17.99

Biography & Autobiography • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Native American & Aboriginal

Exposing the Reich Insights on the Rise and Reign of the Third Reich

By David Harper

An FAQ on the Third Reich written by a WWII tour guide in Germany.

In this book, David Harper seeks to promote an understanding of how the devastation and tragedy of the war and the concurrent genocide could happen. It studies the lethal blend of inciting hatred, ongoing indoctrination, justification for drastic action, and the complete control of all media.

David Harper has been a tour guide in Germany since 1987 and is accredited by Germany’s Institute of Contemporary History. He has previously written Your Complete Guide to Berchtesgaden and We Rubies

Four

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

December 2023 • 280 pages

Hardback 978 1 5381 8089 1 • $38.00 / £29.00

eBook 978 1 5381 8090 7 • $36.00 / £28.00

History • Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater

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INTER NATIONAL AUTHOR INTER NATIONAL AUTHOR Photo by Michael Fousert on Unsplash. Cover coming soon

Until Our Lungs Give Out

A Memoir of Love, Travel, Revolution, and Writing

By George Yancy, foreword by Tim Wise

Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power and welcome everyone into a conversation about the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace.

This interwoven collection of searingly honest interviews with leading intellectuals includes conversations with Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Peter McLaren. Each conversation bears witness to the weighty moment in which it was first conducted and presented by Truthout and Tikkun magazines while pointing to ramifications, future hurdles, and practical optimism for moving forward.

Learning how to speak about such topics as white supremacy and global whiteness, xenophobia, anti-BIPOC racism, fear of critical race theory, and the importance of Black feminist and trans perspectives, readers will be better able to join future conversations with their peers, those in power, and those who need to be empowered to change the status quo.

George Yancy is the author, editor, and co-editor of over 20 books, including Backlash: What Happens When we Talk Honestly About Racism in America. He is known for his influential essays and interviews in the New York Times’ philosophy column, The Stone. Adding to his many awards in recognitions, in March 2022, Yancy was honored to discover an anonymous muralist known as “Belove” had painted Yancy’s larger-the-life portrait in downtown Denver. Yancy lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is professor of philosophy at Emory University.

Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2023

376 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7642 9

$34.00 / £26.00

eBook

978 1 5381 7643 6

$32.00 / £25.00

Social Science • Activism & Social Justice

64 ROWMANINTERNATIONAL.COM POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL SCIENCE

Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism

Second Edition

By Lewis R. Gordon, introduction by Mabogo Percy More

The 25th anniversary edition of a contemporary classic, with an introduction by Paul Gilroy.

Humanities Press

August 2023

236 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 4366 7

$95.00 / £73.00

Paperback

978 1 5381 7960 4

$34.00 / £26.00

eBook

978 1 5381 4367 4

$32.00 / £25.00

Philosophy • Movements / Humanism

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INTER NATIONAL AUTHOR

Cover of previous edition

Lies about Black People

How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why It Matters

By Omekongo Dibinga, foreword by Michael Eric Dyson

An open and thoughtful guide to the path to understanding, action, and change.

Prometheus

September 2023

232 pages

Hardback

978 1 6338 8878 4

$26.95 / £20.99

eBook

978 1 6338 8879 1

$25.50 / £19.99

Social Science • Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

66 ROWMANINTERNATIONAL.COM POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL SCIENCE

Built to Punish How the Criminal Justice System Undermines American Society

By Nora V. Demleitner

A critical analysis of how the US criminal justice systems leaves marginalised groups underprotected and overpunished.

Prometheus

September 2023

275 pages

Hardback

978 1 6338 8860 9

$28.95 / £21.99

Social Science • Criminology

67 ROWMANINTERNATIONAL.COM POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL SCIENCE

Cover coming soon Photo by Emiliano Bar on Unsplash.

Battlefield Cyber How China and Russia are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security

By Michael McLaughlin and William J Holstein

Asking difficult questions about how vulnerable the largest US tech giants are.

Russia and China have a common interest in exploiting the openness of the Internet to erode confidence in US institutions and to exacerbate rifts to prevent US society from mounting an effective response. Using language that the layman can understand, this book offers solutions on how to educate, organize and protect from malicious cyber activity.

Michael McLaughlin is the former Senior Counterintelligence Advisor for United States Cyber Command. Bill Holstein was based in Hong Kong and Beijing for United Press International and has been following U.S.–China relations for more than 40 years.

Prometheus

December 2023 • 260 pages

Hardback

978 1 6338 8901 9 • $28.95 / £21.99

Political Science • Intelligence & Espionage

Digitally Invisible How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass

By Nicol Turner Lee

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

Millions of people in the US do not have access to the Internet. Most of these non-adopters are poor, less educated, people of color, older, or living in rural communities. The inability of these segments of society to exploit the opportunities provided by the Internet is rapidly creating a new type of underclass: the people on the wrong side of a digital divide. The author offers fresh ideas for providing equitable access to existing and emerging technologies.

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

Brookings Institution Press

August 2023 • 220 pages

Hardback

978 0 8157 3898 5 • $27.00 / £20.99

eBook

978 0 8157 3899 2 • $25.00 / £18.99

Political Science • Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy

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Money for Mayhem Mercenaries, Private Military Companies, Lethal Drones, and the Future of War

By Alessandro Arduino

Unpacks the trade-offs involved when conflict is waged by professional outfits that thrive on chaos.

Peace seems harder than ever to achieve in a world where war is no longer waged only by national militaries but increasingly involves private intelligence outfits, rent-an-army soldiers, and cyber mercenaries for hire. This book charts the rise of private military actors from Russia, China, and the Middle East using primary source data, in-person interviews, and field research amongst operations in conflict zones around the world.

Alessandro Arduino is a principal research fellow at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, co-director of the Security & Crisis Management International Centre at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science, and an affiliate at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2023 • 282 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7031 1 • $38.00 / £29.00

eBook 978 1 5381 7032 8 • $36.00 / £28.00

Political Science • International Relations / Arms Control

The Australian Gamble Organized Crime Down Under

By Paul Bleakley

Explores Jack Rooklyn’s and Bally’s role in Australian criminal history.

From humble origins in Al Capone’s Chicago, the Bally poker machine company rode the amusement game wave to become one of the biggest players in the gaming industry worldwide—a status that made it an attractive target for takeover by America’s Italian Mafia. The Australian Gamble explores Jack Rooklyn’s role as a thread that connects some of the best-recognized characters, and most pivotal events, in Australian criminal history.

Paul Bleakley is assistant professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven, Connecticut. Before entering the academic world, Paul was a journalist working in both London and Sydney.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023 • 240 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 7708 2 • $36.00 / £28.00

eBook 978 1 5381 7709 9 • $34.00 / £26.00

True Crime • Organized Crime

69 ROWMANINTERNATIONAL.COM POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL SCIENCE

INTER NATIONAL AUTHOR INTER NATIONAL AUTHOR

Linguistic Fingerprints

How Language Creates and Reveals Identity

By Roger Kreuz

How much of ourselves do we disclose when we speak or write? A person’s accent may reveal, for example, whether they hail from Australia, or Ireland, or Mississippi. But it’s not just where we were born—we divulge all sorts of information about ourselves and our identity through language. Level of education, gender, age, and even aspects of our personality can all be reliably determined by our vocabulary and grammar. To those who know what to look for, we give ourselves away every time we open our mouths or tap on a keyboard.

But how unique is a person’s linguistic identity? Can language be used to identify a specific person? To identify—or to exonerate—a murder suspect? To determine who authored a particular book? The answer to all these questions is yes. Forensic and computational linguists have developed methods that allow linguistic fingerprinting to be used in law enforcement. Similar techniques are used by literary scholars to identify the authors of anonymous or contested works of literature. Many people have heard that linguistic analysis helped to catch the Unabomber, or to unmask an anonymous editorialist—but how is it done?

Linguistic Fingerprints will explain how these methods were developed and how they are used to solve forensic and literary mysteries. But these techniques aren’t perfect, and the book will also include some cautionary tales about mistaken linguistic identity.

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.

A fascinating introduction to forensic and computational linguistics for true-crime fans or those wishing to learn more about the people in their lives.

Prometheus

October 2023

260 pages

Hardback

978 1 6338 8897 5

$28.95 / £21.99

Language Arts & Disciplines • Linguistics

/ General

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God

The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction

By Dan Barker, foreword by Richard Dawkins

Prometheus

July 2023

342 pages

Trade paperback

978 1 6338 8876 0

$24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 6338 8877 7

$23.50 / £17.99

Philosophy • Movements / Humanism

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Shadows of Science

How to Uphold Science, Detect Pseudoscience, and Expose Anti-Science in the Age of Disinformation

By Kendrick Frazier

In this enlightening and entertaining book, Kendrick Frazier takes readers on a journey to the contentious boundary zone between science and its antagonists: pseudoscience (pretend science) and anti-science (open hostility to science). Pseudoscience romps in the shadows of science but takes on the guise of science to excite, sell, mislead, and deceive the public. Anti-science denigrates, even denies, findings of science for ideological ends. In this dangerous age of misinformation (and disinformation), we need science’s remarkable truth-seeking tools more than ever to help counter society’s crazier impulses in which opinion, beliefs, and lies trump facts, evidence, and truth.

Shadows of Science is Kendrick Frazier’s love letter to science, one of humanity’s greatest inventions, one we should exalt for its unique ability to find provisional truths about nature. In congenial prose he reports on recent discoveries and describes how science works and how its error-correcting mechanisms lead eventually to new knowledge. He tells the stories of some of our champions of science and reason. He describes the little-appreciated values of science, how it embraces uncertainty and humility, and its emphasis on fact-based observation and experiment.

Kendrick Frazier was a science journalist and the long-time editor of the Skeptical Inquirer: The Magazine for Science and Reason. A former editor of Science News, he is author or editor of ten books, including the anthology Science Under Siege: Defending Science, Exposing Pseudoscience. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Geophysical Union.

In his final book, science journalist Kendrick Frazier shares his experiences, his knowledge and insights, and his love and passion for our ability to learn.

Prometheus

October 2023

216 pages

Hardback

978 1 6338 8938 5

$26.95 / £20.99

eBook

978 1 6338 8939 2

$25.50 / £19.99

Science • Philosophy & Social Aspects

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The Call of Coincidence

Mathematical Gems, Peculiar Patterns, and More Stories of Numerical Serendipity

By Owen O’Shea

Strange happenstances and chance encounters have puzzled us for centuries. This fun and fascinating book takes readers on a journey through the mathematics behind coincidences both famous and never-beforeexamined. From peculiar patterns in geometry and calculus to the famous Waring Problem, and other astonishing numerical curiosities, The Call of Coincidence begins by examining the mathematical properties that underpin everything there is. Next, author Owen O’Shea —along with fictional guides Charlie Chance and the enigmatic Dr. Moogle—reveals surprising connections and correlations throughout history, including numerical coincidences behind the reign of King Richard III, the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the 1996 FIFA World Cup, and much, much more. By investigating the properties, puzzles, and problems within, you will gain a newfound appreciation for the beautiful simplicity of mathematics in its many forms.

Owen O’Shea is the author of The Book of Proposition Bets, Mathematical Brainteasers with Surprising Solutions, and The Call of the Primes as well as articles in the Journal of Recreational Mathematics and EdgeScience. He lives in Ireland.

Surprising trivia gems and serious questions about number coincidences and the maths behind them.

Prometheus

August

240 pages

Trade paperback

978 1 6338 8926 2

$24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 6338 8927 9

$23.50 / £17.99

Mathematics • Recreations & Games

73 ROWMANINTERNATIONAL.COM SCIENCE

INTER NATIONAL AUTHOR

Cover coming soon Photo by Nick Hillier on Unsplash.

Highly respected accounts on TV, film and theatre history

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

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

Backlist highlights

Top authors

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

Beowulf Boritt has enjoyed a twenty-five-year career in the theater and has designed more than 450 shows in New York, across the United States, and internationally. He has designed twenty-three Broadway shows and more than one hundred Off-Broadway shows. He has been nominated for three Tony Awards and won the prize for Act One. Boritt was honored with an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Design, among numerous other awards and nominations. He lives in New York City with his wife, actor Mimi Bilinski, and his dog Natasha Rostov.

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A Disturbance in the Force

By Steve Kozak

Long scenes entirely of Wookies bleating at each other, without subtitles. Six minutes of Jefferson Starship performing for Art Carney and a bored Imperial Guard. Mark Hamill, fresh from his near-fatal motorcycle accident, slathered in pancake makeup.

Even by the standards of the 1970s or compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is a peerlessly cringeworthy pop-culture artifact. George Lucas, who completely disowned the production, reportedly has said, “If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it.” Just how on earth did this thing ever see the light of day?

Steven Kozak shows in this fascinating and often hilarious inside look into the making of the Special, that it appeared at a cultural moment when cheesy variety shows were a staple of network television and Star Wars was not yet the billion-dollar multimedia behemoth that it is today.

Packed with memorable anecdotes, drawing on extensive new interviews with countless people involved in the production, and told with mingled affection and bewilderment, gives entertaining accounts of the problems that plagued production and explains how, despite the involvement of some of the most talented people in the business, creative differences between movie and television writers led to a wildly uneven product.

Steven Kozak is a veteran of the television industry who has worked behind the scenes at shows such as Who’s Line Is It Anyway?, You Gotta See This, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He is currently director of research and clearances at Jimmy Kimmel Live

The never-before-told story of a strange moment in pop-culture history that remains an object of fascination even today.

Applause

November 2023

232 pages

30 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7527 0

$24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7528 7

$23.50 / £17.99

Performing Arts • Television / General

75 ROWMANINTERNATIONAL.COM THEATRE, FILM & MUSIC

Cover coming soon Photo by Agnieszka Kowalczyk on Unsplash.

The Art of the Zombie Movie

By Lisa Morton, foreword by John A. Russo

Lisa Morton is a six-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author. Her books include Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween and Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances

An eye-popping, entertaining visual history of zombie films written by a six-time Bram Stoker Award winner.

Applause

October 2023

224 pages

Hardback

978 1 4930 6970 5

$45.00 / £35.00

Performing Arts • Film / Genres / Horror

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FILM

MUSIC

Cover coming soon Photo by Nathan Wright on Unsplash.

The Art of Classic Sci-Fi Movies

An Illustrated History

Edited by Adam Newell, foreword by Kim Newman

Acknowledging the iconic, with plenty of room for the rare and unfamiliar.

Applause

November 2023

320 pages

750 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 4930 7103 6

$45.00 / £35.00

Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

77 ROWMANINTERNATIONAL.COM THEATRE, FILM & MUSIC

INTER NATIONAL AUTHOR

Cinema of Swords

A Popular Guide to Movies about Knights, Pirates, Barbarians, and Vikings (and Samurai and Musketeers and Gladiators and Outlaw Heroes)

By Lawrence Ellsworth

A comprehensive guidebook, perfect as a reference work or as a dazzling Hollywood history to be read end-to-end.

Cinema of Swords is a history, guide, and love letter to over four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers: knights, pirates, samurai, Vikings, gladiators, outlaw heroes like Zorro and Robin Hood, and anyone else who lives by the blade and solves their problems with the point of a sword.

Lawrence Ellsworth is a writer, editor, and translator of historical fiction and an acknowledged expert on the history of swashbuckling in literature and film.

Applause

August 2023 • 376 pages

Hardback 978 1 4930 6562 2 • $50.00 / £38.00

eBook 978 1 4930 6563 9 • $48.50 / £37.00

Performing Arts • Film / Genres / Action & Adventure

Hollywood and History

What the Movies Get Wrong from the Ancient Greeks to Vietnam

By Jem Duducu

A fun but informative look at Hollywood’s morethan-a century long love affair with historical figures, events, and places.

This book delves into what really happened in history, as opposed to the Hollywood interpretation of events, and reveals why the movies don’t usually reflect the reality of our known history.

Jem Duducu is a populist historian and historical fiction writer based in London. He spends his time writing, public speaking, and generally messing around with his wife and children.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2023 • 264 pages

Hardback 978 1 5381 7706 8 • $38.00 / £29.00

eBook 978 1 5381 7707 5 • $36.00 / £28.00

Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

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Running the Show Television from the Inside

By Jeff Melvoin

How to build a show from the ground up and what a showrunner’s life looks like in Hollywood.

Seasoned showrunner Jeffrey Melvoin shares his fascinating insider’s perspective on how to call the shots and make the final decisions when choosing and writing scripts, hiring staff, casting, making the budget, and juggling schedules. Along with the managerial responsibilities that keep the show afloat, they are also the visionary for the series and the characters. Melvoin describes how to confidently communicate abstract ideas so they can become the show’s reality.

As a writer, producer, and showrunner, Jeffrey Melvoin has worked on over a dozen series including Designated Survivor and Killing Eve. He has taught courses at USC, UCLA, and Harvard.

Applause

November 2023 • 256 pages • 14 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7529 4 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook 978 1 4930 7530 0 • $23.50 / £17.99

Performing Arts • Television / Direction & Production

Six Seasons and a Movie How Community Broke Television

By Chris Barsanti, Brian Cogan and Jeff Massey

A rich and heartfelt look at a series that rewrote the rules of TV sitcoms.

This is an episode-by-episode deep-dive that excavates a central cultural artifact: a six-season show that rewrote the rules for TV sitcoms and presaged the self-aware, metafictional sensibility so common now.

Chris Barsanti is the author of several books on pop culture and member of the National Book Critics Circle and Online Film Critics Society, both in the US. Brian Cogan is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Molloy College, Long Island, New York. Jeff Massey is an associate professor in the Royal English Department at Molloy College in Long Island, New York, with a focus on mythology and monstrosity.

Applause

December 2023 • 288 pages • 37 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 6655 1 • $21.95 / £16.99

eBook 978 1 4930 6656 8 • $20.50 / £15.99

Performing Arts • Television / History & Criticism

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When the British Musical Ruled the World

By Robert Sellers

For decades, British stage musicals struggled to compete against the dazzling Broadway productions that came roaring in from across the pond. But that tide was turned at last in 1978, when Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of Evita brought the West End back into contention with Broadway. It was just the first of several blockbuster productions that helped Britain dominate musical theater all over the world.

In this revealing behind-the-scenes narrative, journalist and author Robert Sellers gives a definitive account of how Evita, Cats, Starlight Express, Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Chess, and Miss Saigon changed the business of musical theater in the 1980s. These mega productions were larger than life, colorful, and spectacular. Sellers collects insightful, personal stories from cast members, set designers, musical supervisors, dancers, lighting designers, production managers, singers, and choreographers from the shows that finally put Broadway on its back foot. He also describes the backstage drama, production nightmares, and financial woes that threatened to derail the shows at multiple points. Whatever obstacles they faced, though, these productions swept the world and transformed the face of musical theater in ways that still resound today.

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

The definitive account of how Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, and Co. changed the business of musical theater across the world.

Applause

August 2023

272 pages

Hardback with dust jacket

978 1 4930 7133 3

$26.95 / £20.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7134 0

$23.50 / £17.99

Performing Arts • Theater / Broadway & Musical Revue

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The American Theatre as Seen by Hirschfeld

1925-1961

By Al Hirschfeld, edited by David Leopold

The American Theatre as Seen by Hirschfeld

1962-2002

By Al Hirschfeld, edited by David Leopold

The ultimate collection of Al Hirschfeld theatre drawings and illustrations.

Al Hirschfeld’s drawings stand as one of the most innovative efforts in establishing the visual language of modern art through caricature in the 20th century. A self-described “characterist,” his signature work, defined by linear calligraphic style, appeared in virtually every major publication of the last nine decades (including a seventy-fiveyear relationship with The New York Times), as well as numerous books, record covers, and fifteen postage stamps.

Hirschfeld said his contribution was to take the character, created by the playwright and portrayed by the actor, and reinvent it for the reader. Playwright Terrence McNally wrote: “No one ‘writes’ more accurately of the performing arts than Al Hirschfeld. He accomplishes on a blank page with his pen and ink in a few strokes what many of us need a lifetime of words to say.”

These volumes of his work from 1925–1961 and 1962–2002 bring the balance of Hirschfeld’s theater works into focus, giving us the ultimate collection of his theater drawings and illustrations and a complete representation of the artist for the first time.

Al Hirschfeld was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars. He was the recipient of two lifetime achievement Tony Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2002.

Applause

September 2023 • 256 pages

Hardback

978 1 4930 7724 3 • $60.00 / £46.00

eBook

978 1 4930 7725 0 • $58.50 / £45.00

Performing Arts • Theater / History & Criticism

Applause

November 2023 • 256 pages

Hardback

978 1 4930 7726 7 • $60.00 / £46.00

eBook

978 1 4930 7727 4 • $58.50 / £45.00

Performing Arts • Theater / History & Criticism

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How Broadway Works The People Behind the Curtain

By Sharon Grace Powers

Celebrates the unsung, out-of-sight people on Broadway who bring a production to the stage and shows young people interested in theater that there is a myriad of vocations other than acting.

What an audience sees is what is presented on stage: the actors, lights, orchestra, musicians, and sometimes stagehands. Theater professional Sharon Grace Powers highlights the positions behind the curtain that work together to put on a show. She focuses on each area of theater production on Broadway, including what the job is, what the job requirements are, what an artist’s process is, and how that specific job is integrated into the fabric of a show’s production.

Sharon Grace Powers is a singer and actress who has appeared on Broadway, in regional theater, and in cabaret and choral work in New York City.

Applause

September 2023 • 264 pages

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 5994 2 • $19.95 / £14.99

eBook 978 1 4930 5995 9 • $19.00 / £14.99

Performing Arts • Theater / Stagecraft

Stories Told through Sound

The Craft of Writing Audio Dramas for Podcasts, Streaming, and Radio

By Barry M. Putt Jr.

Learn how to craft an engaging audio drama that can become a fully realized production.

With thousands of outlets worldwide and growing, audio drama is the new frontier in storytelling. From family dramas to epic space battles and period pieces to large-cast musicals, it is a medium without limits, because the audience creates the visual world in their mind. Barry M. Putt Jr. lays out the essentials of the form in an engaging, easy-to-understand manner and offers dozens of tactics and strategies.

Barry M. Putt Jr. is an audio-drama writer who has adapted over forty classic and modern stories for Radio Theater Project and has written original audio-drama plays that have been produced by Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre, Petaluma Radio Players, and more.

Applause

September 2023 • 224 pages • 20 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 1 4930 6534 9 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook 978 1 4930 6535 6 • $23.50 / £17.99

Performing Arts • Screenplays

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]

[revised again]

Acting Edition and Trade Edition

By Adam Long

Originally performed by its creators, this 1987 Edinburgh Fringe hit remains the second longest-running West End comedy in history and has been translated into over thirty languages. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) is not so much a play as it is a vaudeville show in which three charismatic, wildly ambitious actors attempt to present all thirty-seven of Shakespeare’s plays in a single performance. They have a rudimentary concept of the stories and have imperfectly memorized a smattering of famous lines. Backstage there’s a meager assortment of costumes and props. Thus armed, the three brazenly launch into their task with an earnest focus and breakneck enthusiasm.

Adam Long (London), Daniel Singer (Southern California), and Jess Winfield (Hollywood) are the original members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company.

Cover of previous edition

Newly revised editions of the the second longest-running West End comedy in history.

Applause

October 2023

Acting Edition, Paperback, 80 pages

978 1 4930 7730 4

$12.95 / £9.99

Trade Edition, Paperback, 160 pages

978 1 4930 7729 8

$16.95 / £12.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7731 1

$14.50 / £10.95

Drama • Shakespeare

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Dimes Square and Other Plays

By Matthew Gasda, introduction by Christian Lorentzen

Performed in loft apartments, pop-up theatres, and other non-traditional spaces, the 2022 underground hit Dimes Square announced Matthew Gasda as a dramatist of lasting power and impressive range, the theatrical chronicler of a self-chronicling generation. At a time when large, institutional theatres were still finding their post-pandemic footing, this brutal, hilarious portrait of New York City scenesters drew in new and diverse audiences by distilling the zeitgeist of our strange new era—a bitter cocktail of dirtbag politics, casual depravity, and pitiless ambition.

Bringing together four of Gasda’s most penetrating works—Dimes Square, Quartet, Berlin Story, and Minotaur this collection surveys a fractured and exhausted cultural-intellectual landscape. From squalid apartments to country estates to hipster bars, these plays give us characters grasping for meaning and human connection in an age of material abundance and moral dislocation. Unflinching, yet marked by exquisite moments of grace, they mark the arrival of a significant dramatic voice.

Matthew Gasda grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A dramatist, novelist, and poet, he is the author of fifteen plays and counting, including the acclaimed underground hit Dimes Square. He lives in New York City.

A collection of plays—including the underground hit Dimes Square—by dramatist Matthew Gasda, following his meteoric rise in New York’s downtown scene.

Applause

July 2023

224 pages

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7571 3

$24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7572 0

$23.50 / £17.99

Performing Arts • Drama

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Gunplays

Five Plays on Inner City Violence and Guns

By William Electric Black

A series of plays dealing with gun violence among urban teenagers in the US.

Gunplays is a series of five plays by William Electric Black addressing inner city violence and guns. The idea of these plays is to generate understanding of the social inequities and disparities behind this plague that US society has so far been helpless to resolve

William Electric Black, aka Ian Ellis James, is a seven-time Emmy Award–winning writer in the children’s TV world. His credits include Sesame Workshop (Sesame Street), Nickelodeon (Allegra’s Window), and many more.

Stage It and Stream It Plays for Virtual Theater

Edited by John Patrick Bray

Explores the rich opportunities afforded by streaming theater.

This anthology brings together new works from emerging and established playwrights to reveal a range of styles and approaches to storytelling; encompass both traditional and experimental plays, from solo pieces to large-cast dramas; and take place within single settings, multiple settings, or even in a utopian “nowhere.” The pieces help to bring playwriting fully into our new era, embodying the sense of magic that comes from simple moments of human connection, even when we cannot be together.

John Patrick Bray is a playwright, screenwriter, and teacher at the University of Georgia. He has a doctorate in Theatre from Louisiana State University and an MFA in Playwriting from The Actors Studio Drama School at The New School.

Applause

October 2023 • 368 pages • 23 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7480 8 • $25.95 / £19.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7481 5 • $24.50 / £18.99

Performing Arts • Theater / History & Criticism

Applause

August 2023 • 406 pages

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7289 7 • $27.95 / £21.99

eBook 978 1 4930 7290 3$26.50 / £19.99

Drama • Anthologies (multiple authors)

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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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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 best-selling 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. He lives in Glasgow with his wife Susanna and their two children.

Rikky Rooksby is a composer, songwriter, guitar teacher, and writer. He is the author of Backbeat’s bestselling How to Write Songs series, which includes How to Write Songs on Guitar, How to Write Guitar Riffs, and Chord Master, along with many other books about popular music.

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Silhouettes and Shadows

The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

By Adam Steiner

Silhouettes and Shadows explores the secret history of David Bowie’s 1980 album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), an avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear which closed Bowie’s golden years of the 1970s.

Featuring exclusive interviews with close collaborators, this book uncovers the studio stories and hidden meanings behind Scary Monsters as Bowie stood at the crossroads of the new decade. Caught between the experimental Berlin Trilogy (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) and 1983’s smash hit “Let’s Dance,” it is here Bowie reached the end of his long road to recovery, overcame his demons, and buried the ghosts of his past to become a global superstar reaching millions of new fans.

Marking a final goodbye to Space Oddity’s lost hero, Major Tom, and the personas of Ziggy Stardust, Halloween Jack, Plastic Soul (the Gouster) and The Thin White Duke, in this rare moment, David Bowie, the pierrot clown of everyday romance, suffering, and song, let his mask slip to reveal David Jones, the man within.

Adam Steiner studied philosophy at the University of Aberdeen and writes about music, street-art culture, architecture, poetry, and transgressive fiction. His previous books include Into the Never: Nine Inch Nails and the Creation of the Downward Spiral, a deep dive into the cultural impact of the seminal album (Backbeat Books, 2020). He lives in London.

The studio stories, ideas, and hidden meanings behind Bowie’s Scary Monsters

Backbeat

September 2023

296 pages

23 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 6564 6

$24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 6565 3

$23.50 / £17.99

Music • Genres & Styles / Rock

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THEATRE, FILM & MUSIC

How to Write Melodies

By Rikky Rooksby

Melody is the true heart of music—the identity of a composition, the vessel that carries the lyrics, the tune that you keep whistling on your way home from a concert. Composing melodies is often thought of as a mysterious process—a lightning bolt of inspiration delivered by the songwriter’s muse—but in fact melody is an art that can be learned, honed, and perfected. This book teaches that art in an engaging and thoroughly accessible fashion. Starting from basics, it covers the essentials—rhythm, intervals, scales, and harmony— and builds on these simple principles to offer a wealth of advanced techniques and tricks. Every musical example in the book is accompanied by a downloadable audio track, allowing songwriters to increase their understanding of melody through both sight and sound.

The only guide you’ll ever need for demystifying and perfecting the art of melody writing.

Backbeat

September 2023

176 pages

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7339 9

$27.96 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7340 5

$26.50 / £19.99

Music • Instruction & Study / Composition

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Darker With The Dawn Nick Cave’s Songs of Love and Death

By Adam Steiner

Uncovers the history and deeper meanings behind Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ most well-known songs.

This book dives into the world of Nick Cave—a complex and often mysterious icon—and looks at his influences, inspirations, and deeper meanings in his most beloved songs throughout his career. Adam Steiner reflects on Cave’s journey from childhood, struggles with drug addiction, reckoning with Christianity, and many other aspects of the artist.

Adam Steiner studied philosophy at the University of Aberdeen and writes about music, street-art culture, architecture, poetry, and transgressive fiction. He lives in London.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

December 2023 • 240 pages • 20 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 6035 0 • $32.00 / £25.00

eBook

978 1 5381 6036 7 • $30.00 / £22.99

Music • Individual Composer & Musician

Rod Stewart

The Classic Years

By Sean Egan

An precedented, in-depth look at a crucial stage in Rod Stewart’s career, recording for the Mercury label from 1969 to 1975.

Sean Egan has interviewed at length many of Stewart’s colleagues, collaborators, and cohabitees from the period. The result is a striking and evocative portrait of the most fecund and vital stage in the life and career of one of popular music’s most important artists.

Sean Egan has contributed to Billboard, Book Collector, Classic Rock, Reader’s Digest, Record Collector, Total Film, Uncut, RollingStone.com, and more. He has written or edited two dozen books, including works on the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Clash.

Backbeat

October 2023 • 240 pages

Hardback with dust jacket

978 1 4930 6822 7 • $32.95 / £25.00

eBook

978 1 4930 7348 1 • $31.50 / £23.95

Biography & Autobiography • Music

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Weight in the Fingertips

By Inna Faliks

A memoir offering powerful insights into the role of music in a world of conflict, change, and hope for a better tomorrow.

Before she knew she was Ukranian, Soviet, or Jewish, Inna Faliks knew she was a musician. In Weight in the Fingertips, Faliks gives a globe-trotting account of her upbringing as a child prodigy in a Soviet state, the perils of immigration, the struggle of assimilating as an American, years of training with teachers, and her slow and steady rise in the world of classical music.

Inna Faliks is an internationally acclaimed classical concert pianist and Head of Piano and Professor of Piano at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

An Evolving Tradition

The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music

By Dave Thompson

The story of the Child Ballads and their influence on modern popular music.

The Child Ballads are a series of over 300 traditional ballads from England and Scotland that, along with their American variants, were anthologized by folklorist Francis James Child in the nineteenth century. Thompson traverses the entire spectrum of rock, pop, folk, roots, experimental music, industrial, and goth to reveal the remarkable legacy and incalculable influence of the Child Ballads on all manner of modern music.

Dave Thompson is the author of over 150 books, including co-written autobiographies with Motown songwriting legends Eddie and Brian Holland, rock photographer Bob Gruen, and New York punk heroes Sylvain Sylvain and Walter Lure, among others.

Backbeat

December 2023 • 256 pages • 20 illustrations

Hardback with dust jacket

978 1 4930 7174 6 • $29.95 / £22.99

eBook

978 1 4930 7175 3 • $28.50 / £21.99

Music • Individual Composer & Musician

Backbeat

September 2023 • 448 pages • 72 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 4930 6806 7 • $42.95 / £33.00

eBook 978 1 4930 6824 1 • $40.50 / £31.00

Music • Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional

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Photo by Eric Nopanen on Unsplash.

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Slaves among Us

The Hidden World of Human Trafficking

By Monique Villa, foreword by Evelyn Chumbow

Now with a foreword by trafficking survivor Evelyn Chumbow of The Human Trafficking Legal Center.

A vital guide for teachers, nonprofits, and others seeking to understand the global fight against slavery.—Kirkus

a powerful, eye-opening look at human exploitation and our complicity as consumers.—Booklist

well-argued, moving, and passionate —Margaret MacMillan, historian

I discovered sex trafficking through filming SOLD, and Monique Villa’s book is an eye-opener on the human experience of slavery.—Gillian Anderson, award-winning actress

The horrific world of modern slavery exposed. With a new foreword and in paperback.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2023

216 pages

8 illustrations

Paperback

978 1 5381 8045 7 • $17.95 / £13.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 5381 2728 5 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 5381 2729 2 • $23.50 / £17.99

Audiobook

978 1 5381 3578 5 • $23.50 / £17.99

Social Science • Human Trafficking

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LEAD TITLE New in Paperback

Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Lies Born With a Junk Food Deficiency

By Martha Rosenberg

The hard-hitting exposé by a leading US muckraker, now updated and with a new chapter and new epilogue.

Prometheus

October 2023

350 pages

Paperback

978 1 6338 8935 4

$21.95 / £16.95

Previously published in hardback

978 1 6161 4593 4

$24.00 / £17.99

eBook 978 1 6161 4594 1

$22.50 / £16.99

Political Science • Corruption & Misconduct

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Tiger in the Sea

The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

By Eric Lindner

An inspiring, uplifting book, with multiple heroes. Many books could be written about similar plane crashes. Be thankful that this one was written.

—The New York Journal of Books

—Michael G. Walling, former Coast Guard officer and author of In the Event of a Water Landing

Lindner has really captured the “feel” of what it’s like to sit in an old Tiger aircraft... I was absolutely captivated!

—Capt. John Dickson, 38-year FTL/FedEx pilot (retired) and president of the Flying Tiger Line Pilots Association

One of the most remarkable sagas in aviation history now available in paperback!

Lyons Press

July 2023

360 pages

74 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7199 9

$19.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 3156 6

$26.95 / £20.99

eBook

978 1 4930 3157 3

$19.00 / £14.99

History • Military / Aviation

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California Vegan

Inspiration and Recipes from the People and Places of the Golden State

By Sharon Palmer

—Brenda Davis, registered dietician, author, speaker, and plant-based pioneer

The story of Californian veganism with over 100 recipes now as paperback!

Globe Pequot

July 2023

288 pages

198 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7021 3

$24.95 / £18.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 5050 5

$29.95 / £22.99

eBook

978 1 4930 5051 2

$28.50 / £21.99

Cooking • Regional & Ethnic / American / Western States

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See You Tomorrow

The Disappearance of Snowboarder Marco

Siffredi on Everest

By Jeremy Evans

Using exclusive never-before-granted interviews with family and friends, Jeremy Evans aims to solve Everest’s greatest mystery in nearly a century while exploring snowboarder Marco Siffredi’s pursuit of a dream, his love of freedom and adventure.

Jeremy Evans is a climber, snowboarder, and awardwinning journalist.

Jeremy Evans humanizes Marco in a way that makes his disappearance a cautionary, yet inspiring, tale of someone who lived with purpose.

—Jimmy Chin, Emmy Award-winning cinematographer and co-director of Academy Award-winning film Free Solo

Falcon Guides

December 2023 • 224 pages

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7721 2 • $19.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 5303 2 • $24.95 / £18.99

eBook

978 1 4930 5304 9 • $23.50 / £17.99

Sports & Recreation • Winter Sports

Paris, City of Dreams

Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris

By Mary McAuliffe

Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today.

Mary McAuliffe holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland and has taught at several universities. She has traveled extensively in France, and for many years she was a regular contributor to Paris Notes. She lives in New York City.

A brilliant social historian.—The New York Times

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

December 2023 • 344 pages • 30 illustrations

Paperback

978 1 5381 8196 6 • $19.95 / £14.95

Previously published in hardback

978 1 5381 2128 3 • $26.95 / £20.99

eBook

978 1 5381 2129 0 • $25.50 / £19.99

Audiobook

978 1 5381 5171 6 • $26.95 / £20.99

History • Europe / France

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The Lost History of the Capitol

The Hidden and Tumultuous Saga of Congress and the Capitol Building

By Edward P. Moser

The Lost History of the Capitol is an account of the many bizarre, tragic, and violent episodes that have occurred in and around the Capitol Building, from the founding of the federal capital city in 1790 up to contemporary times, including the events of January 6, 2021.

Edward Moser is a historian, tour guide, and author. A former speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush, and a former Editor of Time-Life Books, he was also a writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Hailing from The Bronx, and an avid cyclist and traveler, he resides in Alexandria, Virginia.

Lyons Press

December 2023 • 402 pages • 64 illustrations

Trade paperback

978 1 4930 7306 1 • $19.95 / £14.99

Previously published in hardback

978 1 4930 5590 6 • $27.95 / £21.99

eBook

978 1 4930 5591 3 • $19.00 / £14.99

Audiobook

978 1 4930 6762 6 • $27.95 / £21.99

History • United States / 19th Century

The Lives They Saved

The Untold Story of Medics, Mariners and the Incredible Boatlift that Evacuated Nearly 300,000 People on 9/11

By L. Douglas Keeney

The Lives They Saved is the story in artifacts and oral histories of the 300,000 New Yorkers who were evacuated from Manhattan on 9/11—by boat. It is a story that has not yet been written about or told. It includes hundreds of oral histories and many photographs of this high drama, set against the terrifying backdrop of the day when the Earth stood still, every airport in the U.S. was closed, and Manhattan was seized by gridlock.

Douglas Keeney is an historian, researcher, speaker and author of more than a dozen books on American history. He has appeared on Fox, The Discovery Channel, CBS, PBS, and The Learning Channel. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Lyons Press

October 2023 • 280 pages • 28 illustrations

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