January - June 2022 New Books Highlights
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Imprint Introduction Stackpole Books is a trade book publisher with a proud 90-year history of publishing titles in the categories of Outdoors, Crafts 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.
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Top Authors Kristi Simpson Kristi Simpson is the author of many crochet design publications, including the popular Sweet & Simple Baby Crochet. By using a mix of stitches creatively, she designs patterns that are accessible for beginners and interesting for more advanced crocheters. Known for her fresh and modern style, Kristi’s patterns have been published in magazines, books, catalogs, and online venues. Michael Lee Lanning Michael Lee Lanning served more than twenty years in the U.S. Army. In Vietnam he commanded an infantry platoon, a recon platoon, and a rifle company. He has appeared on NPR, CBS, and the History Channel and has written twenty-five books, with more than a million copies of his books in print in fifteen countries and twelve languages.
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Massive Manga
How to Draw Characters, Animals, Vehicles, Mecha, and So Much More! By Yishan Li
Learn to create and color your own manga characters! Massive Manga shows you step-by-step how to bring your ideas to life on paper. Learn by practicing the skills needed for drawing a wide range of manga in a huge variety of hairstyles, faces, and clothing, as well as animals, mechas, weapons, and vehicles. Each subject has a chapter of its own in which you’ll find line-by-line instructions and tons of designs. From teens to tech, cuddly pups to dangerous dragons, you’ll find them all here in these pages. Step-by-step drawings in pencil, ink, and color show you how to draw bodies, faces, eyes, hair, hands, and feet across a range of human and fantasy creations. Learn scores of hairstyles, facial expressions, hand gestures, and body poses.
Imprint: Stackpole Books April 2022 288 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-7026-2 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7029-3 $23.50 / £17.95
To complete your scenes, you’ll learn how to draw accessories and gadgets, weapons, vehicles, and so much more! Yishan Li is a professional manga artist living in Edinburgh, UK. Her work has been published in the UK, USA, France, and Switzerland. She is the author of 500 Manga Characters, 500 Manga Creatures, 500 Manga Villains and Heroes, How to Draw Manga in Simple Steps, and others books on drawing manga. Find her on Instagram @superliyishan.
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100+ Cross Stitch Patterns to Mix and Match Motifs and Borders, Plus 21 Alphabets By Jane Greenoff With the 100+ motif and border patterns in this book, it’s easy to combine them to make your own cross stitch designs. The 21 unique cross stitch alphabets, made to coordinate with the motifs in a variety of styles allow you to add words to complement your ideas. Each motif is presented in chart form with a color key for ease of reference and a finished, worked example to show how the patterns should look when complete. Based on a simple grid and one basic stitch, cross stitch is easy to learn and master, so get started mixing and matching these beautiful designs into your one-of-a-kind creations! Jane Greenoff is one of the most popular cross stitch designers in the world, and the author of 15 books, including The Cross Stitcher’s Bible. Jane lives with her family in a converted barn in Fairford, UK.
Stackpole Books April 2022 • 144 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-7028-6 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7031-6 • $23.50 / £17.95
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Ultimate Crochet Nursery 40 Designs for Blankets, Baskets, Decor & So Much More By Kristi Simpson Your baby deserves the ultimate in crochet designer luxury! Sweet & Simple Baby Crochet author Kristi Simpson delivers 40 patterns for diverse items for the baby and nursery: blankets, decorative garlands, baskets, car seat cover, pillows, nursing cover-up, lovie and toys, diaper bag, mobile, wipe cozy, pouf, sleepsack, changing mat, wall hangings, rugs, and much more--all in colors and styles for the bright, happy, modern nursery. Adorn your nursery with handmade crochet for your new baby. Kristi Simpson is the author of many crochet design publications, including the popular Sweet & Simple Baby Crochet and Adorable Baby Crochet. By using a mix of stitches creatively, she designs patterns that are accessible for beginners and interesting for more advanced crocheters. Known for her fresh and modern style, Kristi’s patterns have been published in magazines, books, catalogs, and online venues.
Stackpole Books May 2022 • 178 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-7000-2 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7002-6 • $23.00 / £17.95
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Benches, Stools, and Chairs A Guide to Ergonomic Woven Seating
Complete Color Mixing Guide for Acrylics, Oils, and Watercolors
By Walter Turpening and Deborah Held
2,400 Color Combinations for Each
Walter Turpening has been designing and perfecting seating for crafters and artistic creators for 20-plus years. His signature cottoncord, curved, woven seats on fine woodworked frames are sought after by crafters, and he operates on an average two-year waiting list. He has been teaching his techniques for many years, and this book is a compilation of his design journal and instructions for his methods.
By John Barner
Walter Turpening has been designing and creating furniture for the specific needs of crafters for more than 20 years. Deborah Held is a freelance writer for weaving and spinning magazines, among others, and has written an article with Walter for SpinOff magazine.
With just 25 common paint colors, you can make 2,400 different hues, and they are all illustrated in this comprehensive guide. That’s 2,400 hues for each medium—oils, acrylics, and watercolors—with each hue visually represented for your easy reference. Better yet, each color mix uses only two paint colors, so matching results are easy to obtain and your colors remain vibrant and true, not muddied by too many pigments as you often get from mixes with many paint colors. John Barber is the author of the Winsor & Newton Color Mixing Guides, as well as many Transformers books.
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Crochet in a Weekend
29 Quick-to-Stitch Sweaters, Tops, Shawls & More By Salena Baca If you shy away from crocheting sweaters, cardigans, ponchos, or tops because you think they’re complicated and take too much time to make, this book was designed just for you. Crochet in a Weekend offers 29 wrap, cowl, cardigan, poncho, tunic, sweater, and top patterns for every season of the year! Each design is made with a yarn that’s easy to find (or substitute), stitches that create gorgeous fabrics (that are easy to memorize), and separate pieces that are portable and easy to seam together! Salena Baca is the author of Two Simple Shapes = 26 Crocheted Cardigans, Tops & Sweaters; My Crocheted Closet; Crochet in a Day; Build Your Skills: Crochet Tops; and Crochet for Christmas.
Stackpole Books April 2022 • 192 pages Stackpole Books June 2022 • 160 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-7050-7 • $32.95 / £25.00 eBook 978-0-8117-7051-4 • $31.00 / £23.95
Paperback 978-0-8117-7027-9 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7030-9 • $23.50 / £17.95
Stackpole Books February 2022 • 144 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3969-6 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6961-7 • $23.50 / £17.95
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Crochet Stitch Sampler Baby Blankets
30 Afghans to Explore New Stitches By Kristi Simpson Stitch sampler blankets offer a great canvas for learning new stitches and exploring new techniques in small portions. The variety of constructions of the blankets in this book keep your mind engaged and your hook flying. Each of the 30 patterns gives full written instructions and all the stitch details you need to complete each blanket confidently, even if the stitches are new to you. Kristi Simpson is the author of many crochet design publications, including the popular Sweet & Simple Baby Crochet and Adorable Baby Crochet.
Stackpole Books February 2022 • 160 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3875-0 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6877-1 • $23.50 / £17.95
Crochet Wraps: 7 Shawl Designs plus Tutorials for New Stitches By Tammy Hildebrand Crochet wraps are perfect for every day! The seven patterns in this book feature designs from lacy stoles to colorful motif shawls, and range in skill level from easy to experienced. Start out on an easy pattern like Midnight Azaleas or Ardeona Lace, or jump right to a more advanced pattern with Perfect Pineapples. If you need to brush up on your skills, a tutorial section is included with a review of basic crochet stitches plus photos and instructions for new techniques. These wraps are fast and addictive to crochet, so choose a favorite design and a supersoft yarn and get started today! Tammy Hildebrand’s crochet designs have been published in myriad crochet magazines and yarn company publications.
By Melissa Leapman, Photographs by Gale Zucker The 24 sophisticated, quick-to-knit projects are each expertly designed, fun to make, and easy to wear. From accessories like scarves, hats, and mittens to wraps and sweaters, all of the projects are ready for their social media close-up! Projects are divided into sections by the approximate length of time to complete, so it’s easy to choose a pattern that both excites you and fits into your busy lifestyle. With more than 1000 knit and crochet designs in print, Melissa Leapman is one of the most widely published American designers at work today.She is the author of several bestselling knit and crochet books, and her designs have been featured in numerous magazines.
Stackpole Books June 2022 • 144 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-3994-8 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6980-8 • $23.50 / £17.95
Stackpole Books April 2022 • 32 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-7103-0 • $11.95 / £8.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7105-4 • $11.00 / £7.95
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Knots for Kids By Buck Tilton, Illustrated by Christine Conners Knots for Kids delivers relevant, expertly curated content perfect for kids. Outdoor skills expert and veteran author Buck Tilton provides readers with accessible information on choosing the best knot for the situation, tying different types of common knots and hitches, selecting the best kinds of rope, and much more. With step-by-step instructions (for both righties and lefties!) on tying the most used and useful knots, this is the perfect book to teach children how to tie knots like the experts. Buck Tilton teaches at Central Wyoming College and has authored more than 1300 magazine articles and more than 40 books. Christine Conners is the author of the nationally popular Lipsmackin’ outdoor cookbook series. If you’d like to see more of her work across other mediums, visit Christine at www.artbyconners.com.
Playtime Rompers to Knit 25 Cute Comfy Patterns for Babies plus 2 Matching Doll Rompers By Jessica Anderson Patterns for 26 of the cutest baby rompers you will ever see, in characters and animals including giraffe, elephant, pumpkin, and ballerina, as well as everyday colorful and striped designs. Presented in an easy-tofollow format to build your knitting skills, you can start with a basic romper and then learn to add stripes, bum pockets, and hoods. Take it to the next level and add ears, tails, and other embellishments for a variety of animal designs. Jessica Anderson is a knitting teacher and designer. Her patterns have been published in Creative Knitting magazine and the yarn publications of Twisted Owl Fiber Studio and SweetGeorgia Yarns, among others.
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Spinning 101
Step by Step from Fleece to Yarn with Wheel or Spindle By Tom Knisely Tom Knisely has been teaching introductory spinning for over 30 years, and in this book, he shares all of this knowledge in his easy-to-understand manner, illustrated with photographs to guide you through each of the steps. From how to choose a spinning wheel and how to set it up and keep it running smoothly; to how to select and prepare your fiber; how to spin your first yarn, and the various options for how to do so; to plying and finishing—Tom explains it all in simple terms and with helpful visuals. Tom Knisely is a popular teacher, writer, and instructor at the Red Stone Glen Fiber Arts Center in York Haven, Pennsylvania.
Stackpole Books February 2022 • 96 pages Stackpole Books May 2022 • 144 pages
Stackpole Books May 2022 • 144 pages
Paperback 978-1-4930-5991-1 • $16.95 / £12.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5992-8 • $16.00 / £11.95
Paperback 978-0-8117-3948-1 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6942-6 • $23.50 / £17.95
Paperback 978-0-8117-3915-3 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6907-5 • $23.50 / £17.95
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Imprint Introduction 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.
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Top Authors Richard Woodman Richard Martin Woodman retired as a captain after a 37-year nautical career. Woodman’s Nathaniel Drinkwater series is often compared to the work of the late Patrick O’Brian. Unlike many other modern naval historical novelists, he has served afloat. He went to sea at the age of sixteen as an indentured midshipman and has spent eleven years in command. Robin Lloyd Robin Lloyd’s early years were spent on the island of St. Croix, where his parents owned a dairy farm and milk plant. Lloyd was a foreign correspondent for NBC News for many years, where he reported mostly from Latin America and Africa. He also covered the White House during the Reagan and Bush administrations.
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All the Brave Fellows
Every Second Counts
A Spy in Casablanca
By James L. Nelson
By David Donachie
By Terry Mort
It is 1777, the Year of the Hangman, and Captain Isaac Biddlecomb is bound for Philidelphia with his wife and child in the Continental brig Charlemagne. His orders are to take command of the newly built 20-gun frigate Falmouth and get her out to sea before she is taken by General Richard Howe’s invading army.
Fugitive Billy Houston, keen to bring about a Nazi-run Britain, needs money. Intent on burglary, his victim has in his possession the entire anti-invasion plans for Southern Britain. Billy aims to get the plans to the German delegation. Will he succeed? If he does, Hitler will lead a German invasion of Britain.
Riley Fitzhugh is recruited by the OSS for temporary duty as a naval spy in Morocco. Riley’s assignment is to kidnap a French river pilot and extract him from Casablanca. Riley meets an old flame from his days in Hollywood and these two have some surprises waiting for them.
Part of the Isaac Biddlecomb novel series. Maritime historian James L. Nelson is a former professional mariner and the multiple award-winning author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. He currently lives in Harpswell, Maine, with his former shipmate, now wife, Lisa and three of their four children.
McBooks Press January 2022 • 412 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5764-1 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6486-1 • $9.99 / £7.95
David Donachie was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an abiding interest in British naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the clandestine services during the Second World War. He has 51 published novels to his credit. David lives in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea, with his partner, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook.
Terry Mort is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Michigan, where he received an MA in English and began working on his PhD. After grad school, he served as an officer in the US Navy.
Stackpole Books February 2022 • 256 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-5838-9 • $26.95 / £20.95
McBooks Press March 2022 • 370 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6064-1 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6064-1 • $27.95 / £21.95
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Danger Close!
A Vietnam Memoir By Phil Gioia
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“Nearly three million Americans served in the Vietnam War. Each had his or her own take on what happened and why and many have tried to commit their war to paper. Phil Gioia has helped our understanding by detailing his days in-country and his informed perspectives in the midst of a fascinating, candid and brave memoir of a life of service. Bravo.” — Ken Burns, filmmaker Danger Close! recounts the Vietnam War from the unique boots-on-the-ground perspective of a young officer who served two tours in two different divisions. He tells his story thoughtfully, straightforwardly, and always vividly, from the raw emotions of unearthing massacred human beings to the terrors of fighting in the dark, with red and green tracers slicing the air. Inserted into far-flung landing zones, Gioia and his men patrolled the jungles and rubber plantations along the Cambodian border, looking for a furtive enemy who preferred ambushes to set-piece battles and nighttime raids to daylight attacks. Hard to put down and impossible to forget, Danger Close! will remind readers of the best Vietnam memoirs, like Guns Up! and Baptism. Phil Gioia served two combat tours in Vietnam between 1968 and 1970 and was awarded two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts. A graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, he went on to earn a master’s in foreign service from Georgetown and an MBA from Stanford.
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Imprint: Stackpole Books May 2022 320 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-7120-7 $29.95 / £22.95
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Mark Twain’s Hawaii
A Humorous Romp Through History By Mark Twain With additional material by John Richard Stephens
Mark Twain’s wit and wisdom is timeless. Mark Twain’s Hawaii: A Humorous Romp through Paradise, combines Twain’s own writings on Hawaii with personal reminiscences by others who met him at that time, and traces Twain’s journey through the region just as he experienced it in 1866. The book highlights Twain’s humor, travel in the 19th century, history, social commentary, and the exotic locale in an authoritative and entertaining volume for Twain fans and Hawaii enthusiasts alike.
Imprint: TwoDot April 2022 480 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5312-4 $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5313-1 $25.50 / £19.95
John Richard Stephens, a resident of Hawaii, is the author/ editor of 23 books, including Wyatt Earp Speaks, Gold, Commanding the Storm, and The Wildest Lives of the Wild West. John’s books have been selections of the Preferred Choice Book Club, the Quality Paperback Book Club, the Book of the Month Club, and a selection of the Civil War Trust. His work has been translated into Japanese and Finnish. John also has the distinguished honor of being quoted around the world in lists of quotations and in several books next to such luminaries as Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Lord Byron and Franz Kafka.
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The Pendulum
A Granddaughter’s Search for Her Family’s Forbidden Nazi Past By Julie Lindahl
“A book of immense courage, written with elegance and great power.” — Philippe Sands, author of East West Street, Professor at University College London This gripping memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl’s journey to uncover her grandparents’ roles in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler’s elite, the SS. In a remarkable sixyear journey through Germany, Poland, Paraguay and Brazil, Julie uncovers that her grandfather had been a fanatic member of the SS since 1934. During World War II, he was responsible for enslavement and torture and was complicit in the murder of the local population on the large estates he oversaw in occupied Poland. He eventually fled to South America to evade a new wave of war-crimes trials. The pendulum used by Julie’s grandmother to divine good from bad and true from false becomes a symbol for the elusiveness of truth and morality, but also for the false securities we cling to when we become unmoored. As Julie delves deeper into the abyss of her family’s secret, discovering history anew, one precarious step at a time, the compassion of strangers is a growing force that transforms her world and the way that she sees her family—and herself. Julie Lindahl is an author and educator living in Sweden. She is a contributor to WBUR Cognoscenti and has been featured on National Public Radio.
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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield January 2022 256 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-5961-3 $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2018) 978-1-5381-1193-2 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook (2018) 978-1-5381-1194-9 $23.99 / £17.95
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The First Counterspy
Larry Haas, Bell Aircraft, and the FBI’s Attempt to Capture a Soviet Mole By Kay Haas and Walter W. Pickut
The First Counterspy is the pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web. Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent. The first two were Larry Haas, a leading aviation engineer at Bell Aviation, and Leona Franey, head librarian at Bell’s technical library. The FBI pitted them against a Soviet agent, Andrei Ivanovich Schevchenko, operating legally as one of the highest Soviet officials in the United States during WWII, and illegally as the secret head of a wide-ranging spy network hidden within the American aviation industry. The First Counterspy lays out this exciting story and, later, the consequences of Schevchenko’s deadly threat of vengeance against Haas, the counterspy who betrayed him. The threat was uttered in a mere fourteen seconds but generated lethal consequences that long outlived Schevchenko. And thereby hangs a tale of spy vs. spy intrigue against the backdrop of the American home front during World War II. Kay Haas is Larry Haas’s elder daughter. Walter Pickut is a freelance writer and the founding editor of the Jamestown Gazette, a Western New York and Northwest Pennsylvania regional weekly newspaper.
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Imprint: Lyons Press March 2022 352 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6156-3 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6157-0 $28.50 / £21.95
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Churchill, Eisenhower, and the Making of the Modern World By Christopher Catherwood It is often said that the special bond between Britain and the USA was forged between Roosevelt and Churchill. But the closer link in many ways was that between Churchill and Eisenhower, since it existed both in wartime 1941-1945 and again, in very different circumstances, between 1951 and 1955. It was the Eisenhower and Churchill relationship that arguably created the world order that lasted until present day. Churchill and Eisenhower can also be seen as a passing of the baton, from Britain as the fading superpower to the dynamic new world of the USA. Churchill’s relationship with Eisenhower spans this transition perfectly and is the ideal prism through which to witness this change in the global order. Christopher Catherwood is an historian and Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow since 2010. He is an teaching alumni of the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Lyons Press April 2022 • 272 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-5052-9 • $29.95 / £22.95
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Fly Boy Heroes
The Stories of the Medal of Honor Recipients of the Air War against Japan By James H. Hallas Fly Boy Heroes is the story of the Pacific theater of World War II through the men who received the Medal of Honor in the air war against Japan. They served in U.S Army air squadrons, on U.S. Navy carriers, in U.S. Marine Corps air units. Who were these now largely forgotten men? Where did they come from? What inspired them to rise “above and beyond”? What, if anything, made them different? Virtually all had one thing in common: they always wanted to fly. They came from a generation that revered the aces of World War I, like Eddie Rickenbacker, the civilian flyer Charles Lindbergh, and the lost aviator Amelia Earhart—and then they blazed their own trail during World War II. James Hallas is a graduate of the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and was in the newspaper business for nearly forty years as reporter, editor, and publisher.
Stackpole Books March 2022 • 432 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-7131-3 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-0-8117-7132-0 • $28.50 / £21.95
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The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Strategies for a World War By Jeremy Black Reinterpreting French Revolutionary and Napoleonic warfare, strategy, and their consequences, in this textbook prominent historian Jeremy Black argues that Napoleon’s failure owed much to his limitations as a strategist. Black uses this framework as a foundation to assess the nature of warfare, the character of strategy, and the eventual ascendance of Britain and Russia in this period. Rethinking the character of strategy, this is the first history to look holistically at the strategies of all the leading belligerents from a global perspective. It will be an essential read for military professionals, students, and history buffs alike. Jeremy Black is professor emeritus of history at Exeter University. His recent books include The World at War and War and Its Causes.
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Allied Fighter Boys of WWII By Jim Busha There have been volumes of books written about the development of US airpower and the technological specifications of each American or Allied aircraft. This is not one of them. This book focuses on the young men who answered the call to duty and were literally transformed from “farm boys to fighter pilots.” It offers a rare glimpse of what it was like to fly a variety of frontline fighters in World War II. From Army Air Force P-39 Aircobras, P-40 Warhawk’s, P-38 Lightning’s, P-47 Thunderbolts and P-51 Mustang’s to US Navy F4F Wildcats, F4U Corsairs and F6F Hellcats. Each story is told in descriptive detail, with the inclusion of actual combat reports contained in many of the stories. Many of the pilots depicted also achieved the status of ace with five or more aerial victories. Jim Busha, an experienced pilot and aviation writer who has been with the Experimental Aircraft Association since 2014. He is Vice President of Publications, Marketing, and Membership for the organization.
Rowman & Littlefield January 2022 • 224 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-6369-6 • $85.00 / £65.00 Paperback 978-1-5381-6370-2 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6371-9 • $30.50 / £22.95
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Lyons Press April 2022 • 272 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6369-7 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6370-3 • $28.50 / £21.95
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The Partnership
George Marshall, Henry Stimson, and the Extraordinary Collaboration That Won World War II By Edward Farley Aldrich Marshall and Stimson were two very different men who combined with a dazzling synergy to lead the American military effort in World War II, in roles that blended politics, diplomacy, and bureaucracy in addition to warfighting. They transformed an outdated, poorly equipped army into a modern fighting force of millions of men capable of fighting around the globe. They identified the soldiers, from Patton to Eisenhower, best suited for high command. They helped develop worldwide strategy and logistics for battles like D-Day and the Bulge. They planned for the postwar world. They made decisions, from the atomic bombs to the division of Europe, that would echo for decades. The Partnership shines a spotlight on these two oft-forgotten giants.
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Patton’s Last Gamble
The Disastrous Raid on POW Camp Hammelburg in World War II By Duane Schultz “The reader who finishes this book will learn more about Patton, World War II, and an obscure piece of its history.” — Military Review In March ‘45, Gen. George Patton created a task force to venture more than fifty miles behind enemy lines and liberate a POW camp near Hammelburg, Germany. The camp held some 1,500 American prisoners. Hampered by ambushes and a lack of fuel and even maps, the raid was one of the worst mistakes of Patton’s legendary career. Out of some 300 men, only three dozen returned. Based on memoirs, diaries, combat reports and interviews with survivors, Patton’s Last Gamble vividly recounts a doomed mission. Duane Schultz has written for such magazines as World War II, World War II History and Military History Quarterly.
Edward Farley Aldrich is an international banker.
Stackpole Books April 2022 • 528 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-7094-1 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-0-8117-7095-8 • $33.00
Stackpole Books May 2022 • 336 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-7090-3 • $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6595-4 • $20.50 / £15.95 Hardback (2018) 978-0-8117-1990-2 • $29.95 / £22.95
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New York City Yesterday and Today Exploring the City’s Tax Photographs By Jamie McDonald Final cover to follow
During the 1940s, photographs of New York City were taken to help figure out property tax assessments. Incredibly, city officials employed a team of photographers to go out to all five boroughs and photograph literally every building in the city. The result is tens of thousands of photos of practically every nook and cranny of the streets of New York. In this fascinating book, author and photographer Jamie McDonald compares the old locations with modern photos. Readers will marvel at the changes some neighborhoods have undergone, whereas some parts of the city have remained remarkably unchanged. It’s a remarkable look at the iconic city’s past and present. Jamie McDonald wrote, directed and hosted the Emmy award winning PBS television series “New York Originals,” which brought about the subsequent book of the same name published by Universe/Rizzoli. He is a former producer at Fox News and an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
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Imprint: Globe Pequot February 2022 288 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-5211-0 $29.95 / £22.95
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The Red Menace
How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History By Ilise S. Carter
“Carter details a fresh, fabulous, and often frightening trip through the social, political, cultural, and sartorial impact of female rebellion all while staring down the barrel of a lipstick tube.” — Tonya Hurley, New York Times and internationalbestselling author Lipstick has served as both a witness and a catalyst to history; it went to war with women, it gave women of color previously unheard-of business opportunities, and was part of the development of celebrity and mass media. In the Twentieth Century alone, lipstick evolved from a beauty secret for a select few to a required essential for well turned-out women but also a mark of rock ‘n’ roll rebellion and a political statement.
Imprint: Prometheus February 2022 216 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-710-7 $28.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-63388-711-4 $27.50 / £20.95
How has this mainstay of the makeup kit remained relevant for over a century? Beauty journalist Ilise S. Carter suggests that it’s because the simple lipstick says a lot. From the provocative allure of a classic red lip to the powerful statement of drag, the American love affair with lipstick is linked to every aspect of our experience of gender. The Red Menace captures all of those dimensions, with a dishy dose of fabulosity that makes it a must-read for lipstick’s fiercest disciples, its harshest critics, and everyone in between. Ilise S. Carter is a freelance writer, consulting copywriter to the beauty industry, and sideshow performer based in New York City. She has written for Allure, New York Times, Racked, Wall Street Journal, and others, with a focus on pop culture.
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Shea Stadium Remembered
All Roads Led to Gettysburg
By Matthew Silverman
By Troy D. Harman
Over its forty-four year existence Shea Stadium witnessed a colorful cavalcade of sporting and entertainment events, all detailed in this lively, skimable tribute to a memorable New York landmark.
Gettysburg Ranger and historian Troy Harman reframes the story of the Battle of Gettysburg from the historical view that it was an “accidental” battle to show that it was instead a logical and strategic clash, based on his years of researching the Civil War and studying the terrain of Gettysburg, south-central Pennsylvania, and northern Maryland.
The Mets, the Jets, and Beatlemania
It’s all here: the memorable games; the unforgettable characters such as Tom Seaver, Joe “Willie” Namath, and Seinfeld buddy Keith Hernandez; and even solemn moments, such as when Shea was used as a staging area for first responders after 9/11. Matthew Silverman was managing editor for Total Baseball, Total Football, and was lead editor for Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia, a volume of 2,000 baseball biographies.
A New Look at the Civil War’s Pivotal Battle
Troy D. Harman has been a National Park Service ranger since 1984, including stints at Appomattox Court House National Historic Park, Mammoth Cave National Park, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, and Independence National Historical Park.
Stackpole Books May 2022 • 288 pages
Lyons Press February 2022 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6087-0 • $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-1-4930-3546-5 • $19.00 / £14.95 Hardback (2019) 978-1-4930-3545-8 • $29.95 / £22.95
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Broken Icarus
The 1933-34 Chicago World’s Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism By David Hanna The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors dressing up old hatreds as new ideas. But there was another story that embodied mankind in that decade. In the same year that both Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt came to power, the city of Chicago staged what was, up to that time, the most forward-looking international exhibition in history. The 1933-34 World’s Fair looked to the future, unabashedly, as one full of glowing promise. In Broken Icarus, author David Hanna tracks the inspiring trajectory of aviation leading up to and through the World’s Fair of 1933, as well as the field of flight’s more sinister ties to fascism domestic and abroad to present a unique history that is both riveting and revelatory.
King David and Boss Daley
The Black Disciples, Mayor Daley and Chicago on the Edge By Lance Williams In Chicago in the mid-twentieth century, there lived two men, both street-savvy, one Black, one Irish, one young, one old and both leaders of their clans. Each ruled with an iron fist. Each embodied the fighting spirit of the turbulent 1960s. One was David Barksdale, the Black Disciples leader, a Black youth club that would give birth to America’s largest street gang; the other was Richard J. Daley, the legendary Mayor of the City of Chicago. Although the two never met, at least not face-to-face, their fates were linked by a time of change, an era of protest, which was a decisive moment of transformational power that was on the verge of a violent uprising in America’s second-largest city. Lance Williams an internationally recognized gang expert and interventionist.
David Hanna teaches history at Stuyvesant High School in Lower Manhattan. Prometheus May 2022 Prometheus May 2022 • 288 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-676-6 • $29.95 / £22.95
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The Gifts of Africa
How a Continent and Its People Changed the World By Jeff Pearce
Past works have reinforced misconceptions about Africa, from its oral traditions and languages to its resistance to colonial powers. Other books have treated African achievements as a parade of honorable mentions and novelties. This book is different—refreshingly different. It tells the stories behind the milestones and provides insights into how great Africans thought, and how they passed along what they learned. Provocative and entertaining, The Gifts of Africa at last gives the continent its due, and it should change the way we learn about the interactions of cultures and how we teach the history of the world. Jeff Pearce has traveled far to get his unusual and compelling stories. For his popular work of history, Prevail, he tracked down witnesses and survivors of the heroic struggle in Ethiopia against Fascist Italy. For his popular biography of adventurer Henry Layard, Winged Bull, he traveled across the Middle East and interviewed a Kurdish army commander near Mosul.
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Imprint: Prometheus March 2022 384 pages Hardback 978-1-6338-8770-1 $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-6338-8771-8 $33.00 / £25.00
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Tyranny from Plato to Trump
Fools, Sycophants, and Citizens By Andrew Fiala
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Questions about how and why the Trump era happened, prompt us to think about universal themes in politics, philosophy, and morality. This book shows how the theatre and tragedy of contemporary US politics can be distilled down into the behavior of three actors: the tyrant, the sycophant and the moron. The bad news is that there have always been morons, sycophants, and tyrants. The good news is that once we know this, we can prepare a response. This book clarifies exactly what it means to be a tyrant, a moron, and a sycophant, and what these moral failures are common. At times, each of us can be tyrannical, moronic, and sycophantic. That is why we need reason and virtue, as well as a political system that restrains our worst inclinations. The ancient Greeks understood this, as did the American founders. The Trump era would be familiar to the Greeks and can help us understand the whirlwind of political theatre that has dominated our contemporary society. Andrew Fiala is professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics at California State University, Fresno.
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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield March 2022 Hardback 978-1-5381-6048-0 $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6049-7 $34.00 / £26.00
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The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time
The Greatest SAS Stories Ever Told
By Walter Boyne and Philip Handleman
Edited by Tom McCarthy
The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time conveys the fascinating progression of flying technology from flimsy wood-andfabric biplanes to thunderous supersonic wonders. Aviation’s most historically relevant and arguably most influential aircraft – planes like the elliptical-winged Spitfire, the blisteringly-fast X-15, and the ubiquitous Learjet – are dramatically showcased in individual chapters. Factors like performance, price, operational efficiency, and perceptions in popular culture are examined. Walter J. Boyne is the former Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum and the Chairman Emeritus of the National Aeronautic Association. Philip Handleman is President of Handleman Filmworks, an Emmy-winning independent production company.
Lyons Press March 2022 • 408 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6638-4 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-2631-9 • $19.00 / £14.95 Hardback (2018) 978-1-4930-2630-2 • $35.00 / £27.00
A superb collection of the best stories ever told about the daring exploits of one of the most outstanding elite fighting forces in the world, Great Britain’s Special Air Service. There is actually very little public information available about Britain’s Special Air Service, one of the world’s most effective elite fighting units. The SAS operates secretly everywhere in the world, often working with American forces in a number of roles that include covert reconnaissance, counter-terrorism, direct action, hostage rescue and human intelligence gathering. The Greatest SAS Stories Ever Told is a recounting of the heroics that the stiff-upper-lipped British take pride in not talking or writing about. Tom McCarthy is an award-winning editor and writer who lives in Guilford, Connecticut.
Lyons Press June 2022 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-3141-2 • $18.95 / £14.95
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Imprint Introduction 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.
Backlist Highlights
Top Authors Sean Egan Londoner Sean Egan has contributed to, among others, Billboard, Classic Rock, Record Collector, Uncut, and RollingStone.com. He has written several books, including works on the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Clash. His 2002 book Jimi Hendrix and the Making of “Are You Experienced” was nominated for an Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Dave Thompson Dave Thompson is the author of over 150 books. He is a columnist for Goldmine magazine and his work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Alternative Press, Mojo, Record Collector and many other major publications. He has contributed to music documentaries produced by VH-1, A&E and BBC.
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Titans of Bass
The Tactics, Habits, and Routines from over 140 of the World’s Best By KJ Jensen
Titans of Bass: The Tactics, Habits, and Routines from over 140 of the World’s Best reveals the experiences of over 140 of the world’s top bassists to help the beginning bassist learn and play their first song. Picking up an instrument for the first time can be a confusing, frustrating experience, but KJ Jenson consulted the best players to give readers an inside look and a running start at the bass guitar. Navigate the first steps of taking on the bass, such as which songs to learn, what to practice every day to enhance skills, and which musicians to emulate. From interviews with the world’s best bassists, KJ Jenson lends the perspectives of musical heroes on how they conquered the bass.
Imprint: Backbeat March 2022 144 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6287-4 $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6288-1 $19.00 / £14.95
Titans of Bass includes interviews with bass wizards such as Justin Chancellor (Tool), Billy Sheehan, Ron Carter, John Patitucci, Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath), Nathan East, Snow Owl, Abraham Laboriel, Sean Lennon, Leland Sklar, George Porter Jr., Christian McBride, Jack Casady, Stuart Hamm, Verdine White, Bill Laswell, and over 125 more.. Kortney “KJ” Jenson is a fearless writer with boundarypushing tendencies. For almost two decades, KJ has been interviewing and meeting tight deadlines in the creation of original and groundbreaking content.
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Weird Al
Seriously, Expanded Edition By Lily E. Hirsch, Foreword by Dr. Demento
“So happy to see Weird Al getting the recognition he deserves. He’s one of my favorite spirits, entities, performers, and I hear he’s an incredible family man. Also that hair, gotta love that hair.” —Reggie Watts Featuring even more insights on “Weird Al” Yankovic, including his activities during a tumultuous 2020 and 2021, this expanded edition dives deeper into the world of the iconic man who has made a career out of making us laugh. Funny music is often dismissed as light and irrelevant, but Yankovic’s fourteen successful studio albums prove there is more going on than comedic music’s reputation suggests. Lily Hirsch weaves together original interviews with the prince of parody himself, creating a fresh take on comedy and music’s complicated romance. She reveals that Yankovic’s jests have always had a deeper meaning, addressing such topics as bullying, celebrity, and racial and gender stereotypes, and that his music served as a much-needed bright spot for many fans. Reveling in the mischief and wisdom of Yankovic’s over fortyyear career, this book is an Al-expense-paid tour of a true comedic and musical genius. Lily E. Hirsch is the author of Weird Al: Seriously. She has written five books on topics ranging from Jewish music history to music in criminal law.
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Imprint: Rowman & Litlefield April 2022 270 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-6350-4 $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6351-1 $19.00 / £14.95
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Blake Shelton Happy Anywhere
By Carol Cash Large, Foreword by Blake Shelton
Watch Blake Shelton’s career begin and flourish from the viewpoint of a lifelong friend who moved the award-winning musician to Nashville when he was seventeen and has been with him every step of the way. In Blake Shelton: Happy Anywhere, Carol Cash Large takes you backstage for personal and unique insight into the life of the young singer. Large starts at the beginning, when Shelton worked with producer Bobby Braddock, recorded his #1 song “Austin,” and performed on the Grand Ole Opry. She shares his victories and the rise in fame when he started garnering nominations at award shows and then recorded seventeen consecutive #1 songs.
Imprint: Backbeat March 2022 256 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6520-2 $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6521-9 $26.50 / £19.95
Large’s favorite stories come from Shelton’s time as host and entertainment on Saturday Night Live and his induction into the Grand Ole Opry. But, she says, landing a gig as a coach of the NBC hit, The Voice, had the biggest impact on his career. Along with his music career success and fame, Large delves into his personal life, showing his penchant for entertaining and bringing smiles to his friends and family. She also recounts stories about the joy he has found with Gwen Stefani, who he has recently married. Carol Cash Large is a retired educator. While this is her first nonfiction book, it was over thirty years in the making.
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Strangers on This Road
The Life and Music of Dave Davies By Cam Cobb
Dave Davies was seventeen when he recorded “You Really Got Me.” With the British Invasion in full swing, the precocious teenager was thrown into the storm. In an instant, he had it all—hit records, fame, adoring fans, even an older brother in his band. But all was not well. Living a Bacchus-like life in Swinging London, Dave Davies was haunted by ghosts from his past and an unshakeable longing. When he had his own hit single at age twenty-one, a solo career appeared on the horizon. Two years later, the Kinks had become a commercial disaster and the guitarist’s own solo career fizzled. In the 1960s and ‘70s, Dave Davies recorded an arsenal of songs both with the Kinks and on his own, yet they remained unreleased for decades. This is the story of Dave Davies’s life and music. It is a story of great excess, great loss, and a spiritual journey. Cam Cobb is a university professor and rock journalist.
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Imprint: Backbeat June 2022 288 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6113-6 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6114-3 $28.50 / £21.95
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Hey! That’s My Song!
A Guide to Getting Music Placements in Film, TV, and Media By Tracey Marino and Vance Marino Songwriters/composers/ producers Tracey and Vance Marino have been wildly successful placing their more than three thousand music compositions in various media. This guide brings together— in one book—all you need to know about writing, recording, marketing, and monetizing your music. Getting placements in film, TV, and media is not only about writing good music, it’s about writing placeable music. And, after you have written placeable music, what do you do with it? Where do you find the decision-makers? This book delivers the answers. Tracey Marino and Vance Marino are a husband-and-wife music writing and producing team.
You are Ketchup And Other Things Known by a Career Musician By Kokayi Music artists, as perceived by the music industry, are akin to a condiment—to be easily replicated, sold in high volume, and enjoyed by the masses. The message is blunt, honest, and necessary. Implicit in it is the reality of an ever-changing music landscape that requires the artists to adapt, and with integrity, lest they become forgotten. It’s this essential idea that the Grammynominated artist and creative consultant Kokayi shares in You Are Ketchup. A Grammy-nominated artist and creative consultant, Kokayi is entrenched in the ethos of hip hop culture while coloring outside the lines of tradition.
Backbeat March 2022 • 240 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6119-8 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6120-4 • $23.50 / £17.95
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Music, Lyrics, and Life A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter By Mike Errico This is a book for songwriters, future content creators, music lovers, and anyone who wants to understand how popular art forms are able to touch us so deeply. Mike Errico has honed these lessons over years of writing, performing, teaching, and mentoring, and no matter where you are on your songwriting journey, Music, Lyrics, and Life will help you build a creative world that’s both intrinsic to who you are, and undeniable to whoever is listening. New York–based recording artist, writer, and lecturing professor Mike Errico has built his name on the strength of critically acclaimed releases and extensive composition for film and TV.
Backbeat January 2022 • 256 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-5987-4 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5979-9 • $28.50 / £21.95
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Conversations with Women in Music Production The Interviews By Kallie Marie Final cover to follow
In Conversations with Women in Music Production, Kallie Marie interviews some of the most renowned women in music production and audio. Through thoughtful questions, readers gain perspective on the experiences of women in music production, as both audio engineers and producers. Their responses cover the choices they made about their careers and lives, how they view their roles, the changing landscape for women and minorities in music production, and the future of women in music production. All the women interviewed have varying viewpoints, but many share similar experiences, be it from formative years or in professional circumstances. Marie offers a rare, candid, and insightful look at the perspectives of women in music production and audio engineering and how they navigate their industry. The interviews lean into social issues, such as diversity, childcare, healthcare, pay equity, and the changing landscape of technology. Conversations with Women in Music Production is a relevant and thought-provoking look into where the industry has come from, how it has changed, and where it might be headed. Heralded as “one of the most versatile studio talents in the business” by Pro Sound News Europe, Kallie Marie is a recording engineer and producer who has worked with artists such as Jeff Derringer, (e)motion Picture, Ashley Hicklin, Royst, January Jane, RainMKERS, Makes My Blood Dance, and Mary and the Ram.
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Imprint: Backbeat June 2022 304 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6506-6 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6507-3 $23.50 / £17.95
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33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute
A Critical Trip Through the Rock LP Era (1955-1999) By Mike Segretto 33 1/3 Revolutions per Minute: A Critical Trip Though the Rock LP Era, 1955–1999 is a history of the rock LP era told though critiques of a very personal selection of nearly 700 albums. It follows rock and roll from its earliest days in the 1950s to the explosion of the British Invasion, soul, folk rock, and psychedelia in the 1960s, on through the classic rock and punk albums of the 1970s, new wave classics of the 1980s, and alternative rock discs of the 1990s. Through reviews of albums universally regarded as classics and far more obscure discs, Mike Segretto shows how the rock and roll album went from a vehicle for singles and filler aimed at kids with an excess of pocket money in the 1950s to a legitimate, self-contained art form by 1967, to the only rock and roll medium that mattered in the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s.
Bruce Springsteen
Songwriting Secrets, Revised and Updated, Second Edition By Rikky Rooksby Bruce Springsteen: Songwriting Secrets, Revised and Updated presents his music as the starting point for a masterclass in the art of writing powerful—and successful—songs. Songwriting guru Rikky Rooksby surveys Springsteen’s rich catalogue and shows how the common techniques they employ can help you: Structure intros, verses, choruses, and bridges; Write songs using anything from two to seven chords; Arrange instruments for maximum effect; Mimic the sound of Springsteen’s chords and progressions; Write lyrics that escape cliché, achieve clarity, and ring true. This revised edition takes into account all the original music Springsteen has released since the first edition of 2004. Rikky Rooksby is a guitar teacher, songwriter/composer, and writer on music.
Mike Segretto is a freelance writer. Backbeat May 2022 • 256 pages Backbeat June 2022 • 560 pages
Paperback 978-1-4930-6526-4 • $29.95 / £22.95
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Take a Sad Song
The Emotional Currency of “Hey Jude” By James Campion Discover the power of song in James Campion’s Take a Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of “Hey Jude”. Music columnist and podcast host Campion shows why the Beatles’ epic 1968 single “Hey Jude” transcends time, taking readers through the song’s riveting personal story, its importance during the fractious days of a pop culture phenomenon, and its impact on the most turbulent year since WWII. Campion’s journey into the song includes the insights of academic experts and professors in the field of musicology, sociology, philosophy, psychology, and history. Campion also reveals commentary from noted Beatles authors, biographers, music historians, and journalists and, finally, a peek into the craft of songwriting from a host of talented composers across several generations. James Campion is a syndicated columnist and contributing editor for the pop culture magazine the Aquarian Weekly, where he’s reviewed concerts and albums for twentythree years.
Backbeat March 2022 • 208 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6237-9 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6238-6 • $24.95 / £19.95
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Top of the Mountain
The Beatles at Shea Stadium 1965 By Laurie Jacobson Against the backdrop of a remarkably volatile year in America’s history, Top of the Mountain: The Beatles at Shea Stadium, 1965 delivers all the detail and excitement of Shea and the spirited, curious new generation who would soon claim the decade for its own. Told through first-person interviews and quotes, a unique cast of characters tells the story: celebrities then and celebrities now, writers, agents, producers, photographers, opening act performers, fans, security guards, radio personalities, cameramen, and media—all of whom were part of the night. Caryn Johnson (Whoopi Goldberg) and Steven Lento (Little Steven Van Zandt); future Beatle wives Linda Eastman and Barbara Bach; established stars like Bobby Vinton and Ed Sullivan; and artists hoping one day to equal this success, such as Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Felix Cavaliere and The Rascals, Marvin Gaye, and more share their memories of this remarkable night in Top of the Mountain. Laurie Jacobson is an award-winning author and stand-up comic.
Backbeat June 2022 • 192 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6528-8 • $39.95 / £31.00
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Under Their Thumb
How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It) By Bill German
Under Their Thumb: How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It) tells the story of Bill German’s unlikely friendship with the Rolling Stones. He first met them on the streets of New York when he was a seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist. After handing them a copy of his amateur fanzine, they took the author under their wing and hired him as their official historian. They turned his little rag into their official newsletter and advertised it in one of their albums. Soon after, he began traveling the world with them and staying at their homes. German went from being a teenage fan who wanted to know everything about his favorite band to suddenly knowing too much! He was privy to their private jams and recording sessions as well as to their parties, peccadilloes, and in-fights. Yet, through it all, he maintained his identity as that nice boy from Brooklyn. Despite Keith’s observation— or edict?—that “people only leave the Stones in a casket or handcuffs,” he was one of the few to leave their orbit on his own terms.
Imprint: Backbeat May 2022 400 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6508-0 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6509-7 $28.50 / £21.95
This updated edition of Under Their Thumb includes new stories about German’s relationship to the Stones and twenty neverbefore-seen images. Bill German worked as an on-air “rock correspondent” for the ABC Radio Network and wrote articles for Spin and Rolling Stone (while publishing 102 issues of his own fanzine).
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Music Theory for SelfTaught Musicians Level 1: The Basics By Will Metz It is well known that many musicians, from amateurs to famous professionals, are largely and sometimes exclusively self-taught. Most of the time, these musicians tend to put music theory aside, but there comes a time when many become curious about this science and understand its utility and potential. Unfortunately, they often get discouraged and think it’s too late to learn theory, that they needed to start early, and of course, know how to read. Fortunately, this turns out to be completely untrue. This book is based on simple, day-to-day common sense, and if you know your alphabet and can count to seven, you will understand theory. Will Metz is a French-American guitarist and author. He entered the Music Academy International in France (his first “formal” music education) and realised his engineering studies background had provided him with a big advantage in understanding music theory and explaining it to his peers.
Backbeat January 2022 • 160 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5611-8 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5612-5 • $23.50 / £17.95
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Music Theory for SelfTaught Musicians
Level 2: Harmony, Composition, and Improvisation By Will Metz Music Theory for Self-Taught Musicians: Level 2: Harmony, Composition, and Improvisation goes in depth into the notions of harmony, composition, and improvisation. It answers one of the most common and troubling questions of any musician, that is: What to play in any given musical context? This is what music theory is all about at the end of the day—learning a bunch of relatively complex notions would make no sense if they didn’t help to compose and create music. This is not rocket science, and anyone can understand the mechanisms of harmony. Will Metz is a French-American guitarist and author. He entered the Music Academy International in France (his first “formal” music education) and realised his engineering studies background had provided him with a big advantage in understanding music theory and explaining it to his peers.
Backbeat January 2022 • 272 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6136-5 • $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6137-2 • $25.50 / £19.95
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The Remarkable Reefs Of Cuba
Field Guide to Rivers & Streams
By David E. Guggenheim
By Ryan Utz Ph.D
After years and years of watching reefs deteriorate, Guggenheim was astonished to come face-to-face with Cuba’s remarkably healthy coral reefs overflowing with fish and other life – ocean ecosystems that appear healthier than those he first encountered as a teenager more than four decades prior.
In Field Guide to Rivers & Streams, Dr. Ryan Utz presents a broad scientific understanding of rivers, streams, and the animals that reside within them, written accessibly for a general audience. Topics range from what causes river flows to rise and fall to the ecology of riverine fishes. Kayakers, anglers, and hikers alike will find many tools within Field Guide to Rivers & Streams to deepen their understanding of their favorite waterway.
Hopeful Stories From the Ocean Doctor
Why are Cuba’s ocean waters so healthy? The answer is deeply intertwined with the country’s extraordinary and singularly unique history, from its dramatic political past to its world-class environmental protections. Dr. David E. Guggenheim is a marine scientist, conservation policy specialist, ocean explorer, submarine pilot and educator.
Discovering Running Waters and Aquatic Life
Dr. Ryan Utz is an assistant professor of water resources at Chatham University and outdoor enthusiast with an obsession for backcountry camping.
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The Ominous Ocean
Rogue Waves, Rip Currents and Other Dangers Along the Shoreline and in the Sea By Gary Griggs From rip tides to rogue waves, the possibilities for some water-borne calamity seem endless, but in most cases a deadly outcome can be avoided or at least mitigated by having a better understanding of the risks involved. This book presents cautionary tales of the most dangerous aspects of oceans encounters, including hazardous sea life such as sharks and rays, the power of the tides, and high seas that can engulf an entire fleet of naval vessels. or succumb to them. Gary Griggs is Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Falcon Guides June 2022 • 256 pages
Prometheus June 2022 • 224 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-780-0 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-63388-781-7 • $26.50 / £19.95
Paperback 978-1-4930-6038-2 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6039-9 • $23.50 / £17.95
Sheridan House April 2022 • 240 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6610-0 • $19.95 / £14.95
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Soul of Goodness
Transform Grievous Hurt, Betrayal, and Setback into Love, Joy, and Compassion By Christopher Phillips Ph.D
In this personal and probing book, an acclaimed ‘philosopher for the people’ shares lessons gleaned from his intimate and often unexpected encounters with uncommonly perceptive human beings both living and long deceased, in the form of weary travelers and some of history’s greatest thinkers, from Heraclitus to Dr. Cornel West. Along the way, he charts a pathway for sculpting what Shakespeare describes as a “soul of goodness,” which meshes with Plato’s paradigm-shattering conception of the “healthiness of soul.” For those struggling to overcome the hopelessness that can result from grievous loss, setback, or betrayal – what Phillips’ touchstone Percy Blythe Shelley calls life circumstances “darker than death or night” – the author spotlights, with philosophical prescriptions both timely and timeless, how to cultivate a ‘Socratic spirit’ that leads to renewed love, forbearance, and hope at the other end of the tunnel. Christopher Phillips Ph.D is an American author, educator, consultant, lecturer, and pro-democracy advocate. He is best known for his 2001 book Socrates Café. Public Radio International called Phillips the “Johnny Appleseed of Philosophy.” He has authored seven books in total.
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Imprint: Prometheus February 2022 232 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-788-6 $25.95 / £19.95 eBook 978-1-63388-789-3 $24.50 / £18.95
PHILOSOPHY
Remix Judaism
Right from Wrong
By Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
By Mark Alan Smith
Remix Judaism: Preserving Tradition in a Diverse World offers an eloquent and thoughtful new vision for all Jews seeking a sense of belonging in a changing world, regardless of their current level of observance. Kwall sets out a process of selection, rejection, and modification of rituals that allow for a focus on Jewish tradition rather than on the technicalities of Jewish law. Her goal is not to sell her own religious practices to readers but, rather, to encourage them to find their own personal meaning in Judaism outside the dictates of Commandment by broadening their understanding of how law, culture and tradition fit together.
Award-winning scholar of religion and politics Mark Alan Smith shows the errors in this chain of assumptions. Apologists find themselves forced to accept a book that condemns samesex love and authorizes slavery, genocide, capital punishment for minor offenses, and many other practices widely recognized today as immoral. Apologists try to protect their worldview by ignoring the offending passages, constructing strained reinterpretations, rationalizing the indefensible, or appealing to God’s mysterious ways.
Preserving Tradition in a Diverse World
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall is the Raymond P. Niro Professor at DePaul University College of Law.
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Why Religion Fails and Reason Succeeds
Mark Alan Smith is Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion and Communication at the University of Washington.
Prometheus June 2022 • 280 pages Rowman & Littlefield March 2022 • 266 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-6364-1 • $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2020) 978-1-5381-2955-5 • $30.00 / £22.95 eBook (2020) 978-1-5381-2956-2 • $19.00 / £14.95
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Free the Press
The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It By Brian J. Karem, Foreword by Sam Donaldson
“Karem makes a powerful case that Trump was just a symptom of the cancer ravaging the independent press in America over the last four decades, and he’s right; the disease is caused as much by the media itself as the politicians attacking the first amendment.”– Joe Lockhart, former White House Press Secretary While the phrase “Fake News” may be a recent phenomenon, the relationship between journalists and the politicians they cover has been on a course for disaster for decades. From Richard Nixon’s disdain for the press, to Donald Trump’s claims that reporters are the “enemy of the people,” animosity between press and presidency has reached a fever pitch. In Free The Press, renowned journalist Brian J. Karem asks the question “How did we get here?” And perhaps more importantly, “How do we fix it?” Blending his experiences as a veteran reporter with trenchant analysis of the erosion of trust between the press and the government over the past 40 years, Karem gives readers a unique perspective on the challenges facing journalism as well as the rise of hostility between these institutions. Brian J. Karem is an award-winning journalist, author, and speaker. He has worked in both newspaper and television as an investigative journalist covering politics, crime, refugee issues, and state and local News.
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Imprint: Prometheus February 2022 336 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-766-4 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-63388-767-1 $28.50 / £21.95
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Crossing Borders
The Reconciliation of a Nation of Immigrants By Ali Noorani
In an era when immigration on a global scale defines the fears and aspirations of Americans, Crossing Borders presents the complexities of migration through the stories of families fleeing violence and poverty, the government and nongovernmental organizations helping or hindering their progress, and the American communities receiving them. Ali Noorani, who has spent years building bridges between immigrants and their often conservative communities, takes readers along to Honduras, Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, and Texas, meeting migrants and the organizations and people that help them on both sides of the border, reporting from the inside on why families make the heart-wrenching decision to leave home. Going beyond the polemical, partisan debate, Noorani offers sensitive insights and real solutions. Urgently needed, Crossing Borders will appeal to a broad audience of concerned citizens across the political spectrum, faith communities, policymakers, and immigrants themselves.
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield April 2022 224 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-4350-6 $27.00 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-5381-4351-3 $25.50 / £19.95
Ali Noorani is Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, an advocacy organization promoting the value of immigrants and immigration, is the author of There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration.
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Thirteen Cracks
Repairing American Democracy after Trump By Allan Lichtman
“In his newest book, Allan Lichtman offers an acute diagnosis of thirteen of the most troubling ailments vexing our political system and prescribes an ingenious remedy for each.” —Jack Rakove, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Original Meanings; William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies, Emeritus, Stanford University America’s founders feared a president like Donald Trump. Through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, they erected a fortified but constrained government to secure the benchmarks of our democracy and established the guardrails designed to protect it. But Trump pushed almost every one of the Framers’ safeguards to its limit—most held, but some broke under the weight of presidential abuses even the Framers did not foresee. Thirteen Cracks will be the first book to expose the most vulnerable areas in our democracy, explain in historical context how President Trump uniquely and outrageously exploited these weak spots, and propose a fix for each challenge. Historian Allan J. Lichtman argues that Trump has put us at a pivot point in our history, where the survival of American democracy is at stake. But this is also an historic opportunity to shore up the vulnerabilities and to strengthen our democracy. Allan J. Lichtman is Distinguished Professor of History at American University.
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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield January 2022 224 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5651-3 $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-1-5381-5652-0 $20.50 / £15.95
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Disinformation
The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era By Donald A. Barclay
Does the idea of a world in which facts mean nothing cause anxiety? Fear? Maybe even paranoia? Disinformation:The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era cannot cure all the ills of a post-truth world, but by demonstrating how the emergence of digital technology into everyday life has knitted together a number of seemingly loosely related forces–historical, psychological, economic, and culture–to create the post-truth culture, Disinformation will help you better understand how we got to where we now are, see how we can move beyond a culture in which facts are too easily dismissed, and develop a few highly practical skills for separating truth from lies.
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield March 2022 312 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-4408-4 $30.00 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-5381-4409-1 $28.50 / £21.95
Donald Barclay has worked as an academic librarian since 1990, holding positions at New Mexico State University, the University of Houston, the Texas Medical Center, and the University of California, Merced. He has been at UC Merced since
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Imprint Introduction 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.
Backlist Highlights
Top Authors Garrett Ryan Garrett Ryan earned his PhD in Greek and Roman History from the University of Michigan, and has taught in the History and Classics Departments of three universities. The author of several articles in leading scholarly journals, he is one of the mostviewed authors –writing under the name toldinstone –on AskHistorians, the internet’s premier public history forum on Reddit. Zara Stone Zara Stone is an award-winning journalist who covers the intersection of culture, technology and social justice. She’s published with The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Vice, Forbes, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, ABC News, BBC, OZY Media and BuzzFeed.
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Story Mode
Video Games and the Interplay between Consoles and Culture By Trevor Strunk Ph.D
“It’s not just that Strunk knows more interesting things about video games and gaming culture than anyone else, although I really think he does. It’s that he knows so much about the obsessions and forces from which games and culture spring, why games work or don’t, and how it all fits into the broader culture as a whole. He sees the big picture in a way other video game writers don’t and can explain it in a way other writers can’t. No one else could have written this book.”– David Roth, co-founding writer, Defector In Story Mode, video games critic and host of the No Cartridge podcast Trevor Strunk traces how some of the most popular and influential game series have changed over years and even decades of their continued existence and growth. We see how the Call of Duty games—once historical simulators that valorized conflicts like World War II—went “modern,” complete with endless conflicts, false flag murders of civilians and hyperadvanced technology. It can be said that Fortnite’s runaway popularity hinges on a competition for finite resources in an era of horrific inequality. Strunk reveals how such shifts occurred as direct reflections of the culture in which games were produced, thus offering us a uniquely clear window into society’s evolving morals on a mass scale.
Imprint: Prometheus January 2022 240 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-680-3 $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-63388-681-0 $25.50 / £19.95
Trevor Strunk, PhD, is the host of No Cartridge, a progressive podcast that critically analyzes video games and the conditions of the games industry.
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The Bullied Brain
Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health By Jennifer Fraser Ph.D
Why do we say we have zero tolerance for bullying, but adult society is rife with it and it is an epidemic among children?
Imprint: Prometheus
Because injuries that all forms of bullying and abuse do to brains are invisible. We ignore them, fail to heal them, and they become cyclical and systemic.
March 2022
Bullying and abuse are at the source of much misery in our lives. Because we are not taught about our brains, let alone how much they are impacted by bullying and abuse, we do not have a way to avoid this misery, heal our scars, or restore our health. In The Bullied Brain, readers learn about the evidence doctors, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists and neuroscientists have gathered, that shows the harm done by bullying and abuse to your brain, and how you can be empowered to protect yourself and all others. Not only is it critically important to discover how much your mental health is contingent on what has sculpted and shaped the world inside your head, it is also the first step in learning ways to recover. Jennifer Fraser earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. Jennifer is trained to take different discourses---literature, anthropology, psychology, pedagogy, neuroscience, philosophy---and put them into dialogue.
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Hardback 978-1-63388-778-7 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-63388-779-4 $23.50
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Meat Me Halfway
How Changing the Way We Eat Can Improve Our Lives and Save Our Planet By Brian Kateman, Foreword by Bill McKibben
“Meat Me Halfway is refreshingly pragmatic, a timely reminder that the perfect is the enemy of the good.” — Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now We know that eating animals is bad for the planet and bad for our health, and yet we do it anyway. We’ve all heard the statistics: animal agriculture is responsible for at least 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions; we need to drop our meat consumption by 50 percent simply to feed the world’s estimated 10 billion people in 2050; a full third of the Earth’s arable land is devoted to growing crops for livestock; approximately 80 percent of deforested land in the Amazon is used solely for rearing livestock. Ask anyone in the plant-based movement and the solution seems obvious: Stop eating meat.
Imprint: Prometheus Rights: UK only April 2022 224 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-791-6 $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-63388-792-3 $25.50 / £19.95
In Meat Me Halfway, author and founder of the reducetarian movement Brian Kateman puts forth a realistic and balanced goal: mindfully reduce your meat consumption. It might seem strange for a leader of the plant-based movement to say, but meat is here to stay. The question is not how to ween society off meat, but how to make meat more healthy, more humane, and more sustainable. Brian Kateman coined the term “reducetarian” in 2014 to describe a person who is deliberately reducing their consumption of meat.
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Space Oddities
Forgotten Stories of Mankind’s Exploration of Space By Joe Cuhaj
Nothing captivates the human imagination like the vast unknowns of space. Ancient petroglyphs present renderings of the heavens, proof that we have been gazing up at the stars with wonder for thousands of years. Since then, mankind has systematically expanded our cosmic possibilities. What were once flights of fancy and dreams of science fiction writers have become nearly routine – a continuous human presence orbiting the Earth, probes flying beyond our solar system, and men walking on the moon. Space Oddities brings unknown, offbeat, and obscure stories of space to life. From the showmanship and bravado of the earliest known space fatality, German Max Valier, to the first ever indictment under the Espionage Act on an Army officer who leaked secrets concerning the development of early U.S. rockets; and the story of a single loose bolt that defeated the Soviet Union’s attempt to beat America to the moon. Joe Cuhaj grew up in New Jersey as a space fanatic. Cuhaj is a Navy veteran and former radio broadcaster turned author and freelance writer.
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Imprint: Prometheus June 2022 192 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-784-8 $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-1-63388-785-5 $20.50 / £15.95
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Making Medicine
Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery By Keith Veronese
In Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery, author Keith Veronese examines eighteen different molecules and their unlikely discovery –or in many cases, their second discovery –en route to becoming invaluable medications. From the famous story of Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin, to lesser-known stories surrounding drugs like quinine (derived from the bark of the cinchona tree and responsible for saving the lives of millions in the fight against malaria), Veronese reveals the “how” and the “who” behind the pharmaceutical breakthroughs that continue to impact our world. With subjects including cancer-fighting therapies and over-the-counter pain relievers; hair regrowth creams and antidepressants; readers will no doubt have a personal connection to at least one molecule in this book. Like all discoveries made by mankind, the stories behind these breakthroughs and their introduction to the world are often messy, sometimes controversial, and always human. Keith Veronese received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and is currently a freelance science writer.
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Imprint: Prometheus June 2022 248 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-753-4 $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-63388-754-1 $25.50 / £19.95
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The Stardust Revolution
The New Story of Our Origin in the Stars Revised Edition By Jacob Berkowitz
“Berkowitz gracefully chronicles the work and passion of physicists, chemists, and other ‘stardust scientists’ who probe the universe for signs of life.” — Scientific American This book describes how we’re in the midst of a third great scientific revolution, five centuries in the making: the Stardust Revolution. It is the merging of the once-disparate realms of astronomy and evolutionary biology, and of the Copernican and Darwinian Revolutions, placing life in a cosmic context. The Stardust Revolution takes readers on a grand journey that begins on the summit of California’s Mount Wilson, where astronomers first realized that the universe is both expanding and evolving, to a radio telescope used to identify how organic molecules-the building blocks of life-are made by stars. It’s an epic story told through a scientific cast that includes some of the twentieth century’s greatest minds-including Nobel laureate Charles Townes, who discovered cosmic water-as well as the most ambitious scientific explorers of the twentyfirst century, those racing to find another living planet. Today, an entirely new breed of scientists-astrobiologists and astrochemists-are taking the study of life into the space age. Astrobiologists study the origins, evolution, and distribution of life, not just on Earth, but in the universe.
Imprint: Prometheus February 2022 376 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-769-5 $21.95 / £16.95 Previously published in Hardback (2012)
Jacob Berkowitz is the bestselling author of Jurassic Poop: What Dinosaurs (and Others) Left Behind, winner of a 2007 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award.
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The Secret Lives of Numbers
Numerals and Their Peculiarities in Mathematics and Beyond By Alfred S. Posamentier
In The Secret Lives of Numbers, popular mathematician Alfred S. Posamentier provides short and engaging mini-biographies of more than 100 numbers, starting with 1 and featuring some especially interesting numbers –like 6,174, a number with most unusual properties –to provide readers with a more comprehensive picture of the lives of numbers both mathematically and socially. Alfred S. Posamentier has published over sixty books in the area of mathematics and mathematics education, including Math Tricks: The Surprising Wonders of Shapes and Numbers, The Joy of Geometry, Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians; The Mathematics of Everyday Life (with Christian Spreitzer); and The Joy of Mathematics (with Robert Geretschlager, Charles Li, and Christian Spreitzer).
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Imprint: Prometheus May 2022 184 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-760-2 $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-1-63388-761-9 $20.50 / £15.95
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The Wisdom of the Enlightenment By Michael K. Kellogg
Enlightenment—Aufklärung in German, Lumières in French—is more an idea than a period. But it is an idea that took hold in a particular historical context of revolutionary scientific advances, increasing economic and social freedom, rising literacy and prosperity, and a greater willingness to challenge the authoritarianism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In The Wisdom of the Enlightenment, author Michael K. Kellogg points to 1637, the year that gave us Rene Descartes’ landmark inquiry into truth, as the beginning of a period that radically changed individual human thought and collective societal action.
Imprint: Prometheus February 2022 320 pages Hardback 978-1-63388-793-0 $32.95 / £25.00 eBook 978-1-63388-794-7 $31.00 / £23.95
From Descartes’ assertion of “I think, therefore I am,” to the philosophies of Enlightenment thinkers like Moliere, Spinoza, Voltaire, Hume, and Kant, this book charts the new and revolutionary philosophies at a time when progress seemed possible across the whole range of human knowledge and endeavor. In sweeping aside tired superstitions and applying a new scientific methodology, the Enlightenment ideas of progress through free exercise of reason ushered us into the modern world. This engaging and comprehensive survey of Enlightenment thoughts and thinkers is a celebration of the faith that all problems are solvable by human reason. Michael K. Kellogg, educated at Stanford and Oxford in philosophy and at Harvard Law School, is a founding and managing partner at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC.
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Leaf Your Troubles Behind
How to Destress and Grow Happiness Through Plants By Karen Hugg
Leaf Your Troubles Behind shows readers how to discover nature’s healing effects to reduce stress and increase happiness. This practical and inspiring book puts forth the concept of “Green Leisure”, an original and approachable system for dialing into nature’s healing via seven basic destressing strategies. Composed of relatable stories, insightful scientific research, and fun, easy-to-do exercises for beginners and experts alike, this guide to houseplants and their profound impact will be a refreshing oasis in our mostly indoor world of work, school, and home where screens, not nature, dominate our lives. Through stories, science, and easily replicable exercises, Leaf Your Troubles Behind offers detailed how-to advice on creating your own plant-oriented space to unlock and maintain the power of nature at home. Karen Hugg is a writer and gardener with a passion for plants. She’s a certified ornamental horticulturalist and Master Pruner.
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Imprint: Prometheus June 2022 176 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-817-3 $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-63388-818-0 $18.50
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Previous edition cover
How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Asking the Right Questions By Christopher DiCarlo 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION In this classic guide to critical thinking, author Christopher DiCarlo provides you with the tools you need to question beliefs and assumptions held by those who claim to know what they’re talking about. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this anniversary edition provides timely solutions for today’s world of misinformation based on timeless principles of logic and reason. This book will empower you with the ability to spot faulty reasoning and, by asking the right sorts of questions, hold people accountable not only for what they believe but how they behave. By using this book you’ll learn to analyze your own thoughts, ideas, and beliefs, and why you act on them (or don’t). Christopher DiCarlo, PhD is an awardwinning lecturer on bioethics and philosophy of science.
Predators
Who They Are and How to Stop Them By Gregory M. Cooper and Michael R King This updated paperback edition takes readers through the mindset of predatory criminals - their motives, various plans of attack, and way of thinking - and then teaches simple lifestyle techniques that will help reduce the risk of becoming victimized. Featuring a new chapter on how the Internet and social media has radically changed how some predators operate, criminal behavior specialists Greg Cooper and Mike King provide expert analysis based on real-life cases, in addition to moving insights from victims and criminals themselves. Gregory M. Cooper is the owner/president of Cooper Enterprises, where he provides services as an international trainer, consultant, expert witness, and author. Michael R. King is the training director for the Management & Training Corporation, an international company operating state and federal prisons around the world.
Prometheus January 2022 • 404 pages
Prometheus February 2022 • 352 pages
Paperback 978-1-63388-712-1 • $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-1-63388-801-2 • $20.50 / £15.95
Paperback 978-1-63388-707-7 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-63388-802-9 • $23.50 / £17.95 Hardback (2007) 978-1-59102-506-1 • $27.99 / £21.95
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Debt Assassin
A Black Ops Guide to Credit Repair By Richard Mansfield Bad things happen to good people. Events not always under our control can often result in our credit scores going down, and sometimes way, way down. There are consumer protection laws that you can use to remove negative items from your credit report,. Because of a quirk in the law you can, as the author did, remove items that really are yours. But if you try to go it alone, the credit repair journey can be a nightmare. This book introduces a step-by-step credit repair system, actua documents the author used to settle suits, and legal cases filed in federal courts against major credit bureaus. These are the credit repair secrets they really don’t want to you to know, from someone who successfully challenged the credit reporting industry. RJ Mansfield is a credit repair coach who has helped hundreds of clients improve their credit scores.
Emotional Vampires
Predators Who Want to Suck the Life Out of You By Kathleen Rhodes and Daniel Rhodes Since ancient times, Vampire legends have had a powerful hold on the human imagination. This fascination continues today with the popularity of Bram Stokers Dracula, New vampire books and movies, and pop cultural phenomena. Daniel Rhodes and Kathleen Rhodes, D.N.Sc. believe that very real vampires are stalking their prey from the shadows – not the mythical bloodsuckers of folklore fame, but emotional vampires who deliberately drain others psychologically. Illustrated fascinating personal stories from victims, this insightful work identifies and classifies emotional predators, exposes the methods they use, describes the collective “vampirism” of groups, and offers ways to combat the effects of an emotional attack. Daniel Rhodes is a well-known novelist who specializes in the horror genre. Kathleen Rhodes has worked in the area of psychiatric care for more than twenty-five years.
Lyons Press February 2022 • 288 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6401-4 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6697-1 • $28.50 Prometheus July 2022 • 197 pages Paperback 978-1-6338-8815-9 • $19.95 / £14.95
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Divorce By Lori Hellis The guide to divorce by a seasoned family lawyer. The No-Nonsense Guide to Divorce is the straight-talking, reassuring book you need now if you find yourself facing divorce. Written by an experienced family law attorney, the book is an often blunt, sometimes funny, always empathetic look at one of the most challenging times in your life. The book begins with a list of rules to help you through the tough parts. They’re reliable, time-tested, formulated from the author’s 27 years in practice. In a clear, concise, and contemporary voice, author Lori Hellis offers step-by-step, start-to-finish advice on the many phases of divorce. Lori Hellis is an author and lawyer. She practiced family, criminal, and juvenile law for 27 years before retiring to write.
Rowman & Littlefield March 2022 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-5559-2 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-5381-5560-8 • $19.00 / £14.95
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Brain Health as You Age
A Practical Guide to Maintenance and Prevention By Stephen P. Simmons; William E. Mansbach and Jodi L. Lyons Brain Health as You Age provides useful, achievable actions you can take to reduce your risk of brain function decline, accurate information about identifying problems, and real solutions. The authors offer useful anecdotes and scientifically validated information -important tools in separating myth from reality. The authors separate fact from fiction to ensure that recommendations are evidence-based, practical, useful, achievable, and measurable. Steven P. Simmons, MD, is a board-certified internist. William E. Mansbach, PhD, is the founder and chief executive officer of Mansbach Health Tools LLC, which supports the BCAT® Research Center. Jodi L. Lyons is an eldercare expert who helps older adults and those with special needs find the care they need throughout the country.
Rowman & Littlefield February 2022 • 200 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-6160-9 • $19.95 / £14.95 Hardback (2018) 978-1-5381-0916-8 • $36.00 / £28.00 eBook (2018) 978-1-5381-0917-5 • $19.00 / £14.95
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Swim, Bike, Bonk
Confessions of a Reluctant Triathlete By Will McGough
“The book is absolutely hysterical…This is a great book for a newbie triathlete and an experienced Ironman would love it as well because it’s raw, truthful, insightful and humorous all in one package.” —A Triathlete’s Diary
Imprint: Lyons Press
Just as George Plimpton had his proverbial cup of coffee in the NFL as the un-recruited and certainly unwanted fourthstring quarterback for the Detroit Lions, so, too, did Will McGough immerse himself in a sport he had no business trying. Like Plimpton, whose football folly turned into the bestselling Paper Lion, travel and outdoor writer McGough writes of his participation in, around, and over the course of one of the world’s premier triathlons, the annual 140.6mile Ironman in Tempe, Arizona. McGough chronicles the Ironman’s history, his unorthodox training, the pageantry of the race weekend, and his attempt to finish the epic event. The narrative follows not just his race but also explores the cult and habits of the triathlete community, beginning with the first Ironman competition in Hawaii in 1978. This is a light-hearted, self-deprecating, and at times hilarious look at one man’s attempt to conquer the ultimate endurance sport, with a conclusion that will surprise and delight both dedicated triathletes as well as strangers to the sport.
Paperback 978-1-4930-5937-9 $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-3639-4 $19.00 / £14.95 Hardback (2019) 978-1-4930-4162-6 $24.95 / £18.95
Will McGough is an award-winning international travel writer and the owner of Wake and Wander Media.
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Running Sideways
The Olympic Champion Who Made Track and Field History By Pauline Davis, with T.R. Todd Foreword by Lord Sebastian Coe
When Pauline Davis first began to run, it wasn’t with any thought of future Olympic glory. A product of the poor neighborhood of Bain Town in The Bahamas, she carried the family’s buckets every day to fetch fresh water—running sideways, sprinting barefoot from bullies, to get the buckets of water home without spilling. But when a seasoned track coach saw Pauline sprinting, he saw the heart of a champion. In Running Sideways, Pauline Davis shares her inspiring story. Born and raised in the ghetto, Pauline fought through poverty, inequality, racism, and political machinations from her own country to beat the odds and become a two-time Olympic gold medalist, the first individual gold medalist in sprinting from the Caribbean, the first woman of color on the World Athletics council, and a central figure in the Russian antidoping campaign. A casualty herself of the doping plague that hit track and field—she wouldn’t be awarded her individual gold medal until Marion Jones was infamously stripped of her medals for doping—Pauline dedicated her years on the World Athletics council to clean sport and fair play.
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield February 2022 344 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5549-3 $34.00 / £26.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5550-9 $32.00 / £25.00
Pauline Davis is a former Bahamian sprinter who competed in five Olympic Games. After winning silver at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, she achieved two gold medals in 2000 at Sydney Olympics.
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Baseball’s Ultimate Power
Last Time Out
By Bill Jenkinson
By John Nogowski
“Here we have the carefully researched, imaginatively argued contrary position. Great reading for any baseball fan, but especially those whose passions are ignited by comparisons of players from different eras.” —Booklist
After hours and hours of research, through biographies, microfilm, magazines, and memories, awardwinning sportswriter John Nogowski culled the stories of the final games of 25 of The Game’s greatest athletes-Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson, Dizzy Dean, Satchel Paige, Carlton Fisk, Bob Feller, Joe Morgan, and Carl Yastrzemski are among those featured. This impressive work recounts the circumstances surrounding these final games and puts you in a box seat to witness and sense the moment as these glorious careers ceased, most often with little fanfare.
Ranking The All-Time Greatest Distance Home Run Hitters Updated Edition
Fully illustrated with player photos and aerial ballpark photos showing the landing spots of each stadium’s longest home runs, Baseball’s Ultimate Power is the definitive book on the tape-measure home run and its practitioners. Jenkinson travels through the decades to give us the distances, descriptions, and comparisons of the forty longest hitters in major league history, the ten longest-hitting active players, the five mightiest from the nineteenth century, and the five best tape-measure batsmen from the Negro League era. Bill Jenkinson is the author of the critically acclaimed The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs.
Big League Farewells of Baseball’s Great Updated Edition
An award-winning sportswriter, John Nogowski teaches AP Language, English and Journalism at Gadsden County High School in Havana, Florida.
Lyons Press April 2022 • 240 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6653-7 • $19.95 / £14.95
Lyons Press June 2022 • 352 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5555-5 • $18.95 / £14.95
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Fighting against the Odds
An Insider’s Life in UFC, Boxing, and Entertainment By Fiaz Rafiq
“This is a gripping memoir which doubles up as an insightful deep dive into the world of entertainment and sports by a journalist who identified the phenomenon of MMA fighting as well as one man’s journey to discover who he really is.” — Halina Watts, Sunday Mirror Fighting against the Odds is the culmination of Fiaz Rafiq’s decades of work behind the scenes as a mixed martial arts and combat sports journalist, gaining the trust and confidence of the best fighters in UFC and boxing. Rafiq shares candid accounts, hidden histories, and thrilling experiences from his time with some of the most famous and prominent personalities in fighting sports. Included are never-before-told stories of UFC’s most decorated and revered champions in Randy Couture, Royce Gracie, Daniel Cormier, Brock Lesnar, Georges St-Peire, and Conor McGregor and boxing icons such as Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali.
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Rights: World, excl. UK April 2022 336 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5483-0 $29.95 eBook 978-1-5381-5484-7 $28.00
Reaching the pinnacle of his career was anything but a smooth ride for Rafiq. The writer faced adversities, obstacles, and even harassment at American airports. Fighting against the Odds is a fascinating odyssey, one man’s inspiring coming-of-age story populated by some of the most colorful characters in the world of sports and entertainment. Fiaz Rafiq is a sports and entertainment journalist and author.
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Imprint Introduction For more than 40 years, FalconGuides 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 John Long John Long is a legendary rock climber, world adventurer, and top-selling author in the outdoor industry (more than a million copies in print). His feats include the first one-day ascent of El Capitan and a coast-to-coast traverse of Borneo. He has written numerous books, including the best-selling How to Rock Climb!, the world’s foremost book of climbing instruction. Molly Absolon Molly Absolon has written 10 titles for the Backpacker Magazine Outdoor Skills Series (Falcon). She is also the author of the Basic Illustrated Winter Camping and the forthcoming Basic Illustrated Alpine Ski Touring.
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Camping’s Top Secrets A Lexicon of Modern Bushcraft, Fifth Edition By Cliff Jacobson
Discover the best-kept secrets of expert campers, which are divulged in this book by Cliff Jacobson, a seasoned veteran of the sport. Once you learn the secrets of the experts, you can share these insider tips with your camping buddies. Dazzle your kids or scouts with the wealth of shortcuts disclosed in this surreptitious guide to comfort and security in the bush. In this guide you’ll find tips from A to Z on forecasting the weather, treating drinking water, building shelters such as a quinzee hut and various survival shelters, dealing with animal and insect encounters, cooking and cookware, making fires, treating common ailments, using maps and a compass, camping with kids, and choosing camping clothes, boots, sleeping bags and gear...and much more!
Imprint: Falcon Guides February 2022 240 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6294-2 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6295-9 $23.50 / £17.95
Cliff Jacobson is one of North America’s most respected outdoors writers and wilderness canoe guides. He is a canoeing consultant, and the author of more than a dozen top-selling books on camping and canoeing. He lives in River Falls, Wisconsin.
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How to Rock Climb! Sixth Edition
By John Long and Bob Gaines
How to Rock Climb!, now in its sixth edition, is the most thorough instructional rock climbing book in the world. All the fundamentals—from ethics to getting up the rock—are presented by rock climbing experts John Long and Bob Gaines. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the modern standards of equipment, technique, and training methods, this guide includes sections on face climbing; crack climbing; ropes, anchors, and belays; getting off the rock; sport climbing; and much more. It is the essential how-to book for rock climbers everywhere. John Long is an acclaimed rock climber and author of more than forty books, including several in Falcon’s catalog. He is one of the most prolific adventure writers out there and has authored magazine articles, screenplays, documentary films, and television and movie scripts, as well as instructional rock climbing books. Bob Gaines began his career as a rock climbing guide in 1983 and is an American Mountain Guides Association Certified Rock Instructor. He is the author of Advanced Rock Climbing and the coauthor of Rock Climbing: The AMGA Single Pitch Manual, which is the textbook for the AMGA’s single pitch instructor program. He was Sylvester Stallone’s climbing instructor for the movie Cliffhanger.
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Imprint: Falcon Guides Series: How to Climb June 2022 336 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5626-2 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5625-5 $28.50
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Highest and Hardest
A Mountain Climber’s Lifetime Odyssey to the Top of the World By Chris Kopczynski At the age of 16 Chris Kopczynski carved the words “Everest/Eiger” into the handle of his ice axe, marking his goal to climb the two mountains known as the “highest and the hardest.” He accomplished that goal by the age of 33, becoming the ninth American to summit Everest and the first American to summit both the North Face of the Eiger and Mt. Everest. Chris’ lifelong odyssey to the top of the world includes the climbs, attempts and summits of every continent’s highest, hardest, and most significant mountains. He gives readers stories of perseverance and survival as he achieved his dreams on Robson in the Canadian Rockies, Chimney Rock in Idaho, the Pamirs and Elbrus in the USSR, Denali in Alaska, Makalu in Nepal, Antarctica’s Vinson, Chile’s Aconcagua, Kosciuszko in Australia, and Africa’s Kilimanjaro and Carstensz. Chris Kopczynski has climbed with John Roskelley for over 55 years.
How to Ice Climb! Second Edition
By Tim Banfield and Sean Isaac Climbing frozen waterfalls is great wintertime fun as well as good training for alpinism. How To Ice Climb! covers the equipment and techniques that will allow beginner’s to safely enjoy this sport. It also provides experienced climbers with advanced skills that will make them more efficient. Written by a true master, this book provides invaluable tips for conserving energy, staying warm, and mastering the art of mixed climbing on rock and ice. Tim Banfield has worked in the adventure photography industry for nine years, gaining experience in his niche—ice climbing—while at the same time writing feature articles that support his photos. Sean Isaac is a fully certified Alpine Guide with the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides.
Falcon Guides Series: How To Climb Series February 2022 • 272 pages Paperback 978-0-7627-8277-2 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-3135-1 • $28.00 / £21.95
Falcon Guides February 2022 • 370 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6647-6 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-4930-6648-3 • $33.00 / £25.00
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Perfecting the Cast
Adapting Casting Principles for Any Fly-Fishing Situation By Ed Jaworowski
Ed Jaworowski has spent his life learning, practicing, understanding, teaching, perfecting, and writing about casting. He is an acclaimed and widely recognized expert of the subject with an exhaustive list of credentials. This, his third book, is his tour de force. Filled with his 60+ years of casting wisdom, it explains the four principles of casting which if understood can be adapted to meet any and every specific fishing condition. Instead of telling you what to do, how to stand, how to grasp the rod, where to start and end the stroke, and how to move the rod, Ed teaches the first few things that all casts have in common—those principles—and then shows how to apply those fundamentals in endless ways. He covers casting theory and mechanics and then explains how to analyze and diagnose casts. Based on Ed’s six decades of fishing for more than one hundred fresh and saltwater species, this is a book for all fly fishers, so that whatever fishing situation, whatever rod, whether on a stream, in a boat, offshore, onshore, or wading, the fly fisher understands what the aim is—to deliver the fly to the fish—and is able, because of an understanding of how casting works and what needs to happen, to make the cast and get the fish. Ed Jaworowski has taught countless students his casting methods.
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Imprint: Stackpole Books February 2021 224 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3971-9 $39.95 / £31.00 eBook 978-0-8117-6969-3 $38.00 / £29.00
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Out of the Box
Unconventional Fly Fishing Strategies and Winning Combinations to Catch More Fish By John Barr
In this book, expert fly designer John Barr covers his techniques for catching more fish, including trout and warmwater species such as bass. His unconventional techniques include adapting tactics for bass and panfish for catching trout—and using trout techniques for warmwater species. He covers his deadly technique of fishing multiple flies in detail and shares his favorite fly combinations for fishing the hatches, both in rivers and still waters. Even if you’re wise to the technique of fishing multiple flies to increase your chances of catching fish, John Barr takes that game to a whole new level in this book. There are chapters on fishing all the major hatches, streamer fishing, fishing for warmwater species, lake fishing, as well as critical insights into the mental game that enables the top 10 percent of anglers to catch 90 percent of all the fish.
Imprint: Stackpole Books May 2022 184 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-1302-3 $29.95 / £22.95
John Barr is the most successful designer of commercially distributed flies in the world.
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A Fish Come True
Fables, Farces, and Fantasies for the Hopeful Angler By Paul Schullery
Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple By Skip Morris
In this remarkable array of stories, a tour de force of literary styles ranging from unadorned tale to historical mystery to science-fiction adventure, Paul Schullery honors the angler’s innate and precious need to hope and illuminates the rich rewards and deeply satisfying misadventures that arise from the fulfillment of our angling dreams.
Expert fly tier Skip Morris shows how easy it is to tie classic and popular flies for all kinds of fly fishing, presenting basic information on tying effective go-to flies in a clear, organized way and giving advice for when tying goes wrong. Skip covers nymphs, streamers, soft hackles, and dry flies with 16 classic flies—Wooly Bugger, Mickey Finn, Black Ghost, Griffith’s Gnat, and many more.
A Fish Come True celebrates the enduring joys, mysteries, and miseries of fishing through a series of “what-if” stories.
Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple is the primer for learning how to tie flies—a time-tested classic.
Paul Schullery, the author, coauthor, or editor of more than forty books, is the recipient of numerous awards for his work as a writer and conservationist, including honorary doctorates from Ohio University and Montana State University.
Stackpole Books March 2022 • 184 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-7125-2 • $21.95 / £16.95 eBook 978-0-8117-6863-4 • $20.50 / £15.95 Hardback (2019) 978-0-8117-3865-1 • $24.95 / £18.95
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Skip Morris is a full-time fly-fishing author and speaker who has published dozens of books on fly tying and fly fishing. Among them, his Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple has become the standard beginner’s fly-tying guide.
Stackpole Books March 2022 • 80 pages Paperback 978-0-8117-7052-1 • $21.95 / £16.95
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Landon Mayer’s Guide Flies
Easy-to-Tie Patterns for Tough Trout By Landon Mayer When you spend as much time on the water as guide Landon Mayer, you need simple, easy-to-tie patterns that get the job done, day in and day out. In this fly-tying book, Mayer shares 20 of his top patterns for trophy trout that have been perfected on rivers and still waters in the Rockies and across the globe. These flies include twelve of Mayer’s own designs as well as eight of his favorite flies by others. Instructions for each fly are covered in over 200 detailed step-by-step photos, each chapter includes fishing and rigging tips, and the book includes seven rigging illustrations by Dave Hall.
On the Trout Stream with Joe Humphreys
The Orvis Guide to Hatch Strategies
By Joe Humphreys
One of the most studied yet intimidating aspects of fly fishing for trout is an understanding of insect hatches. This unique book teaches fly fishers enough entomology to be successful, and instead of focusing on insect identification, it stresses learning how to approach trout, how to find where they feed, and how to present the fly so it is accepted as natural food without hesitation. It helps fly fishers catch more fish on dry flies, streamers, and nymphs, and teaches the angler more about trout than the life history of insects. Published in association with The Orvis Company.
Revised Edition
On the Trout Stream with Joe Humphreys gives readers hard information and instruction in an original, highly visual presentation of how Joe Humphreys—one of the great fly fishers of all time—actually fishes. Unprecedented in approach and full of new tips as well as photo-sequence explanations of techniques never before fully explained anywhere. Joe Humphreys is a nationally known fly fisherman, conservationist, author, and educator. He has been a fishing instructor to anyone who wants to learn the sport, including VIPs, for over 45 years.
Landon Mayer is a fly-fishing instructor, guide, and writer with over two decades of experience.
By Tom Rosenbauer, Foreword by Tom Bie
Tom Rosenbauer has been a fly fisher for five decades and was tying flies commercially at age fourteen.
Stackpole Books March 2022 • 248 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-7119-1 • $39.95 / £31.00 Stackpole Books February 2022 • 216 pages Hardback 978-0-8117-3993-1 • $39.95 / £31.00 eBook 978-0-8117-6979-2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Lyons Press February 2022 • 232 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6168-6 • $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-4930-6169-3 • $33.00
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The Official U.S. Army Fitness Training Handbook By Department of the Army
A key guide to complete fitness for both military and civilian use, The Official U.S. Army Fitness Training Handbook is an outstanding resource for anyone interested in improving mental health, physical health, and general well-being.
Imprint: Lyons Press
A soldier’s level of physical fitness has a direct impact on his combat readiness. The many battles in which American troops have fought underscore the important role physical fitness plays on the battlefield. The renewed nationwide interest in fitness has been accompanied by many research studies on the effects of regular participation in sound physical fitness programs. The overwhelming conclusion is that such programs enhance a person’s quality of life, improve productivity, and bring about positive physical and mental changes. Not only are physically fit soldiers essential to the Army, they are also more likely to lead enjoyable, productive lives.
February 2022 272 pages
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Paperback 978-1-4930-6549-3 $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6551-6 $19.00 / £14.95
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Work Out
The Revolutionary Method of Creating a Sound Body to Create a Sound Mind By Jason R. Karp PhD
There are many fitness books devoted to getting a better body. There are also many books devoted to the mindfulness, insideout approach to success, several of which focus on exercise. However, there has not been a book that turns the insideout concept on its head (pun intended), taking an outside-in approach to show how strengthening the body first leads to a stronger mind and inner self. Work Out fills that void, first by explaining how exercise creates the sound mind and changes us on the inside and then by describing the workouts to create the sound body.
Imprint: Falcon Guides April 2022 160 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6097-9 $18.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6098-6 $18.00 / £13.95
Jason R. Karp PhD has given hundreds of international lectures and has been a featured speaker at the world’s top fitness conferences and coaching clinics.
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Imprint Introduction 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 Sean O’Connell Sean O’Connell is the managing director of CinemaBlend, a globally recognized and industryrespected entertainment news website. He also hosts a popular weekly podcast, ReelBlend, that covers every aspect of the film industry. He has covered the turbulent Hollywood story of the Justice League since day one. Stephen Jones Stephen Jones is a Hugo Award nominee and the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three International Horror Guild Awards, four Bram Stoker Awards, twenty-one British Fantasy Awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Horror Association. He lives in London.
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Second Act Trouble
Behind the Scenes at Broadway’s Big Musical Bombs By Steven Suskin
If Broadway’s triumphant musical hits are exhilarating, the backstage tales of Broadway failures are tantalizing soap operas in miniature. Second Act Trouble puts you with the creators in the rehearsal halls, at out-of-town tryouts, in latenight, hotel room production meetings, and at after-the-fact recriminatory gripe fests. Steven Suskin has compiled and annotated long-forgotten, first-person accounts of twenty-five Broadway musicals that stubbornly went awry. Contributions come from respected writers such as Patricia Bosworth, Mel Gussow, Lehman Engel, William Gibson, Lewis H. Lapham, and John Gruen. No mere vanity productions, these; you can’t have a big blockbuster of failure, it seems, without the participation of Broadway’s biggest talents. Caught in the stranglehold of tryout turmoil are Richard Rodgers, Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, Cy Coleman, Charles Strouse, John Kander, Mel Brooks, and even Edward Albee., The infamous shows featured include Mack & Mabel; Breakfast at Tiffany’s; The Act; Dude; Golden Boy; Hellzapoppin; Nick & Nora; Seesaw; Kelly; and How Now, Dow Jones.
Imprint: Applause March 2022 400 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6514-1 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-61774-654-3 $26.50 / £19.95
Steven Suskin has written a dozen books on theatre and music.
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Transforming Space Over Time
Set Design and Visual Storytelling with Broadway’s Legendary Directors By Beowulf Boritt
Transforming Space over Time: Set Design and Visual Storytelling with Broadway’s Legendary Directors tells the stories of six diverse productions: five on Broadway and one Off-Broadway. Beowulf Boritt, theater designer and Tony Award winner, begins with the moment he was offered each job and takes readers through the conceptual development of the set, in collaboration with the director, the challenges of its physical creation, and the intense process of readying it for the stage. Since theater is at heart a collaborative art form, he includes details of his work with the many professionals—designers, technicians, producers, stage managers, and actors—who contribute their talent and ideas to each show. Boritt offers insight into the sometimes frustrating but unavoidable realities of the “biz” part of showbiz: budgets, promotion, reviews, and awards, and he provides enough detail to interest aspiring and seasoned theater professionals and enough spice to satisfy passionate theatergoers. Boritt includes extensive conversations with the directors of the productions, theater legends such as James Lapine, Kenny Leon, Hal Prince, Susan Stroman, Jerry Zaks, and Stephen Sondheim. 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.
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Imprint: Applause April 2022 304 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6484-7 $34.95 / £27.00 eBook 978-1-4930-6485-4 $33.50 / £26.00
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The Actor’s Mindset
Fearlessly Different
By Craig Archibald
By Mickey Rowe
The Actor’s Mindset: Acting as a Craft, Discipline, and Business uniquely prepares actors to live a full, successful life as a performing artist. While most acting books focus on either the art or the business of entertainment, Archibald looks at the entire picture of what it means to be an actor, focusing on the foundations of both the artist and the entrepreneur to guarantee a complete and fully functioning approach to a career.
“Mickey Rowe’s Fearlessly Different is fascinating, educating, elucidating, and sometimes enraging. It is inspirational and eye-opening. It is insightful and, hopefully, inciting—a call for action, for necessary and overdue change, for a vital, urgent reframing and rethinking of disability.” —Laurie Frankel, New York Times best-selling, award-winning author
Acting as a Craft, Discipline and Business
The Actor’s Mindset is divided into three distinct parts: “The Craft,” “The Discipline,” and “The Business.” Archibald’s unique experience as both an actor and a coach gives him an unparalleled perspective on the current industry landscape. Craig Archibald’s studio has honed the talents of some of today’s brightest stars, who he guides to wins and nominations at the Golden Globes, SAG Awards, Oscars, and Emmys.
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An Autistic Actor’s Journey to Broadway’s Biggest Stage
Fearlessly Different is the moving, inspirational memoir of autistic actor Mickey Rowe, who pushed beyond the stereotypes and obstacles so many disabled individuals face to shine on Broadway’s biggest stage. Mickey Rowe (he/him) has had a prolific and varied career as an actor, director, and public speaker.
Rowman & Littlefield March 2022 • 192 pages
Applause March 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978-1-5381-6312-2 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6313-9 • $23.50 / £17.95
Paperback 978-1-4930-6334-5 • $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6335-2 • $23.50 / £17.95
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I Don’t Need an Acting Class By Milton Justice I Don’t Need an Acting Class explores critical aspects of the technique of acting, utilizing conversations via email with countless actors. Some are aspiring students, others are seasoned professionals. The conversations document the challenges these diverse actors face as they digest what they have learned in a class or rehearsal while exploring in practical terms how to use their growing technique. As an acting teacher, Milton Justice has had the privilege of coaching and teaching a wide range of actors over the past thirty years, including Mark Ruffalo, Margo Martindale, Sean Astin, Kyra Sedgwick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Carmack, Maura Tierney, and Patrick Stewart.
Offstage Observations
Inside Tales of the NotSo-Legitimate Theatre By Steven Suskin, Foreword by Ted Chapin Steven Suskin introduces Broadway, once upon a time, in Offstage Observations: Tales of the Not-So-Legitimate Theatre. The drama critic and noted chronicler of Broadway takes the reader through a decade’s worth of adventures, working his way from a menial pencil sharpener for producer David Merrick toward a career as a full-fledged manager, producer, and drama critic. Steven Suskin has led a wellrounded life in the Broadway theatre on both sides of the footlights.
Applause March 2022 • 384 pages Applause January 2022 • 216 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6125-9 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6126-6 • $18.50 / £13.95
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The Stage Actor’s Handbook Traditions, Protocols, and Etiquette for the Working and Aspiring Professional By Michael Kostroff and Julie Garnyé This book offers a detailed yet readable resource outlining the traditions, protocols, superstitions, and etiquette of the stage actor, written for aspiring performers and young professionals alike. Michael Kostroff is an American actor. He appeared on the HBO program The Wire as defense attorney Maurice Levy. Julie Garnyé is an actress, singer, voiceover artist, writer, producer and director.
Rowman & Littlefield May 2022 • 144 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-6043-5 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6044-2 • $19.00 / £14.95
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When the Lights Are Bright Again
Letters and images of loss, hope, and resilience from the theater community By Andrew Norlen, Photographs by Matthew Murphy The Covid-19 pandemic revealed what a world without live performance looks and feels like. This book captures a small fraction of the powerful and transcendent internal heartbeat that never went away within the theater community. When the Lights Are Bright Again immortalizes the stories, struggles, and successes of an industry that was the first to be shut down and one of the last to return. Andrew Norlen weaves more than 200 letters from Broadway theater veterans, devout theatergoers, teenage dreamers aching for their day in the spotlight, longtime ushers, designers, creatives, and countless other arts workers. Andrew Norlen, originally from Troutdale, Oregon, is a New York City-based artist. Matthew Murphy is a New York City-based photographer specializing in theater, dance, and portrait photography.
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A Young Actor Prepares By Jeff Alan-Lee In A Young Actor Prepares, Jeff Alan-Lee masterfully delivers kids’ and teens’ acting classes presented as plays in script form. The classes are based on actual semesters at the Young Actor’s Studio in Los Angeles and provide stepby-step approaches to help children and teenagers portray complex characters and tackle emotionally challenging roles. The book is for kids and teens, as well as teachers and parents. Kids and teens can find relatable characters and gain a deeper ability to make their acting shine. Teachers will get a unique look at how to handle a multitude of personalities while teaching the real work to children as young as eight. Parents will discover an actor’s process that can lead their kids to greater selfesteem and creativity in all the arts Jeff Alan-Lee is the artistic director of the Young Actor’s Studio and a top acting coach in Los Angeles.
Applause January 2022 • 256 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-6103-7 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6104-4 • $19.00 / £14.95
Applause January 2022 • 240 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6659-9 • $40.00 / £31.00
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Europe by Eurail
Touring Europe by Train FortySixth Edition By Laverne Ferguson-Kosinski, Revised by Darren Price
Europe by Eurail has been the train traveler’s one-stop source for visiting Europe’s cities and countries by rail for over forty years. Newly revised and updated, this comprehensive annual guide provides the latest information on fares, schedules, and pass options, as well as detailed information on more than one hundred specific rail excursions and sightseeing options. LaVerne Ferguson-Kosinski and her late husband, George Ferguson, first coauthored this unique and comprehensive how-to guide in 1980. They also coauthored Britain by BritRail (Globe Pequot).
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Imprint: Globe Pequot February 2022 584 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5476-3 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5477-0 $23.50 / £17.95
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Duped
Why Innocent People Confess and Why We Believe Their Confessions By Saul Kassin PhD Final cover to follow
Why do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely, this must be a rare phenomenon? In fact, it happens all the time. Psychologist Saul Kassin is the world’s leading expert on false confessions – why innocents confess, how interrogators force false confessions, and why we all believe them. This conclusive and comprehensive book reveals the psychology behind why innocent men and women, intensely stressed and befuddled by the promises, threats, trickery, and deception of a police interrogation, are duped into confession, no matter how horrific the crime. Featuring riveting case studies, highly original research, work done in tandem with the Innocence Project, and quotes from individuals who confessed to crimes they did not commit, Duped tells the story of how this happens, how the system turns a blind eye, and how to make it stop.
Imprint: Prometheus April 2022 368 pages Paperback 978-1-63388-808-1 $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-63388-808-1 $28.50
Saul Kassin is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Massachusetts Professor Emeritus at Williams College. Kassin pioneered the scientific study of police interrogations and confessions, distinguishing three types of false confessions – a taxonomy that is still universally accepted today.
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The Con and the FBI Agent An Unlikely Alliance By David Nadolski In this exciting account, former FBI supervisory special agent David Nadolski tells the story of an unlikely alliance between two diametrically opposed people—the con and the FBI agent. While investigating a break-in at the Stone Library in Quincy, MA that houses the personal book collection of John Quincy Adams, the FBI gets a call from prison inmate, Anthony (Tony) Romano, requesting to meet with the case agent on the burglary. Romano provides a helpful tip that leads to the apprehension of the thief and the recovery of four priceless, historically significant books. David Nadolski is a retired supervisory special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Rowman & Littlefield February 2022 • 290 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5959-0 • $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5960-6 • $34.00 / £26.00
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Hitmen
The Mafia, Drugs, and the East Harlem Purple Gang By Scott M. Deitche The Purple Gang became an almost obsession with the media. Accounts of the Gang’s activities popped up in the newspapers across the country in the late 1970s. They were every law enforcement agency’s favorite suspect. This book is the first in-depth account of the Gang, digging through the mystery and mythos, and getting to the real members of the Gang, their operations, and where some of the major players re today, culminating in the November 2013 Mafia hit of former Purple Gang member Michael Meldish. Scott M. Deitche is an author specializing in organized crime. His books include Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld and Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey.
Rowman & Littlefield May 2022 • 210 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-5356-7 • $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978-1-5381-5357-4 • $34.00 / £26.00
Greed in the Gilded Age
The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick By William Elliott Hazelgrove Greed in the Gilded Age is a Gatsby-esque tale of mystery, money, sex, and scandal. Breaking through boundaries of class, education, and gender, Cassie Chadwick conned at least 2 million dollars, equivalent to about 60 million today, from unsuspecting bankers simply by claiming to be the illegitimate daughter and heir of steel titan, Andrew Carnegie. William Elliott Hazelgrove has a masters in history and is the best-selling author of ten novels and five narrative nonfiction books.
Rowman & Littlefield February 2022 • 216 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-4290-5 • $26.00 / £19.95 eBook 978-1-5381-4291-2 • $24.50 / £18.95
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The Art of Horror Movies Revised and Updated Second Edition By Steven Jones
This magnificent companion to The Art of Horror looks at the entire history of the horror film, from the silent era right up to the latest releases and trends. This revised edition includes more films, rare images, and in-depth explorations to bring this award-winning book completely up to date, cementing its position as the definitive and essential guide to horror movies. Through a series of informative chapters and fascinating sidebars chronologically charting the evolution of horror movies for more than a century, profusely illustrated throughout with over 600 rare and unique images including posters, lobby cards, advertising, promotional items, tiein books and magazines, and original artwork inspired by classic movies, this handsomely designed hardcover traces the development of the horror film from its inception and celebrates the actors, filmmakers, and artists who were responsible for scaring the pants off successive generations of moviegoers!
Imprint: Applause March 2022 256 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6325-3 $45.00 / £35.00
Stephen Jones lives in London, England. He is the winner of 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.
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Best Pick
A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards By John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky
In Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, and Tom Salinsky provide a captivating decade-by-decade exploration of the Oscars. For each decade, they examine the making of classic films, trends and innovations in cinema, behind-the-scenes scandals at the awards ceremony, and who won and why. Twenty films are reviewed in-depth, alongside ten detailed “making-of” accounts and capsule reviews of every single Best Picture winner in history. In addition, each Best Picture winner is carefully scrutinized to answer the ultimate question: “Did the Academy get it right?” Full of wonderful stories, cogent analysis, and fascinating insights, Best Pick is a witty and enthralling look at the people, politics, movies, and trends that have shaped our cinematic world. John Dorney is an actor and a writer. He’s acted at the National Theatre, had a script on at the Royal Court Theatre, and won the BBC’s Sketch Factor and Show Me the Funny talent searches. Jessica Regan is an award-winning, RADA-trained Irish actor, writer, and podcaster based in London. Tom Salinsky is a writer, podcaster, communications coach, and improviser.
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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield February 2022 288 pages Hardback 978-1-5381-6310-8 $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978-1-5381-6311-5 $34.00 / £26.00
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The Game is Afoot The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes By Jeremy Black
Fans of Sherlock Holmes will delight to investigate Victorian England, a world where crimes large and small abound and where dark corners and well-lit drawing rooms alike hide villainy.
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Through the enduring eye of Sherlock Holmes, noted historian Jeremy Black traces how Holmes and his milieu evolved in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s books and how Holmes continues to resonate today. Black explores the context of Doyle’s ideas and stories and why they struck such a chord with readers in London, and ultimately the world. He portrays a complex man with eclectic interests, from soccer to spiritualism, from cricket to divorce-law reform. Standing twice for Parliament, Doyle was a committed meritocrat whose political experiences and values were expressed through his writings. Reading the Holmes stories through the lens of Doyle’s multifaceted career, Black throws fresh light on the values expressed in them and how Holmes would have been perceived at the time. He traces the imperial strand in the Holmes stories and his treatment of America and Europe.
Hardback 978-1-5381-6146-3 $24.95 / £18.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6147-0 $23.50 / £17.95
May 2022 240 pages
Jeremy Black is professor emeritus of history at the University of Exeter, UK. His books include Seventy Great Battles in History; The World of James Bond; and A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps.
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Planet of the Apes The Complete History By Sean Egan
Planet of the Apes explores every aspect of this media phenomenon---from books to films to comic books to television shows to video games to merchandise---to provide an overview of the Planet of the Apes franchise that is truly definitive. With the help of new and exclusive interviews, it examines the contributions of producers, directors, writers, actors, and makeup artists in an attempt to gain an understanding of how this media property has changed the world. Sean Egan, a British journalist, has contributed to, among others, Billboard, Book Collector, Classic Rock, Record Collector, Tennis World, TotalFilm, Uncut, and RollingStone.com. He has written or edited two-dozen books, including works on the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Clash, Manchester United, CoronationStreet, Tarzan, and William Goldman. His critically acclaimed novel, Sick of Being Me, was published in 2003, while his 2008 collection of short stories, Don’t Mess with the Best, carried cover endorsements from Booker Prize– winners Stanley Middleton and David Storey.
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Imprint: Applause January 2022 264 pages Paperback 978-1-4930-5725-2 $26.95 / £20.95 eBook 978-1-4930-5726-9 $25.50 / £19.95
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Hollywood Horrors Murders, Scandals, and Cover-Ups from Tinseltown
By Andrea Van Landingham Hollywood Horrors shares known and lesser-known stories from Hollywood such as the Black Dahlia murder, Roscoe “Fatty’ Arbuckle’s trial for the murder of Virginia Rappe, Johnny Stompanato’s murder and more. It features unforgettable stories from the early days of Hollywood through the 1950s that fall under Murders, Scandals, and Cover-Ups. A native of sun-bleached Los Angeles, Andrea Van Landingham grew up surrounded by L.A. stories.
Lyons Press January 2022 • 312 pages
The MGM Effect
How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World By Steven Bingen The MGM lion now presides not over movies alone, but over thirty world-class resorts, and is, or has been, also a recognized leader in the fields of real estate, theme parks, casinos, golf courses, consumer products, and even airlines, all around the world. But the MGM mystique remains. This book is a look at what made MGM the Mount Rushmore of studios, how it presented itself to the world, and how it influenced everything from set design to merchandising to music and dance, and continues to do so today. Steven Bingen is an author, archivist, lecturer and Hollywood insider who has written or contributed to dozens of books, articles, and documentaries regarding popular culture, film history, and in particular, Hollywood’s physical past.
Paperback 978-1-4930-6007-8 • $19.95 / £14.95 Audiobook 978-1-4930-6763-3 • $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6008-5 • $19.00 / £14.95 Lyons Press April 2022 • 256 pages Hardback 978-1-4930-6054-2 • $29.95 / £22.95 eBook 978-1-4930-6796-1 • $28.50 / £21.95
The Silent Feminists
America’s First Women Directors, Updated Edition Edited by Anthony Slide Originally published in 1977 as Early Women Directors, Anthony Slide’s The Silent Feminists was the first volume to recognize and honor the work of female directors in the American silent film industry. This invaluable resource documents these pioneering women’s lives and careers and provides an introduction to the notable yet often overlooked history of female film directors. It introduces readers to such trailblazers of the motion picture as Alice Guy Blaché, Lois Weber, Mrs. Wallace Reid, Ida May Park, Margery Wilson, and many others. Anthony Slide is an English writer who has produced more than seventy books and edited a further 150 on the history of popular entertainment.
Rowman & Littlefield March 2022 • 200 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-6552-2 • $27.95 / £21.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6553-9 • $26.50 / £19.95
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Wine Wars II
The Global Battle for the Soul of Wine By Mike Veseth
Globalisation has pushed back the borders of the wine world, creating a complex, interconnected market where Old World and New World wines and producers compete head to head. Writing with wit and verve, Mike Veseth (a.k.a. the Wine Economist) tells the compelling story of the war between the market and climate forces that are redrawing the world wine map and the terroirists who resist them. It is the battle for the future of wine—and even for its soul. The fight isn’t just over bottles bought and sold, however; power and taste are also at stake. Who will call the shots in the wine market of the future? Who will set the price? Whose palate will prevail? Will it be Two Buck Chuck or tradition-steeped vintners? Veseth masterfully brings all of these questions together in the only book on the wine business written for all lovers of wine. Mike Veseth is professor emeritus of international political economy at the University of Puget Sound. He is editor of the award-winning blog The Wine Economist and author of several books on the business and pleasure of wine, including Extreme Wine; Money, Taste, and Wine; and Around the World in Eighty Wines, which received the 2018 Gourmand International award for “Best U.S. Book in Wine and Spirits Tourism” and is included on BookAuthority.com’s lists of the “Best Wine Books of All Time” and “Best Wine Audiobooks of All Time”.
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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield July 2022 264 pages Paperback 978-1-5381-6383-2 $19.95 / £14.95 eBook 978-1-5381-6384-9 $19.00 / £14.95
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Farmers’ Market Favorites By Gooseberry Patch
A best-selling title, now updated with 16 pages of photos associated with recipes throughout the book!
Imprint: Gooseberry Patch
Friendly chatter, cheery farm stands, bushels of produce, baskets of fruit and Mason jars overflowing with just-picked blooms. The farmers’ market is in full swing! With everything in sight locally grown, there’s just no better place to find the absolute freshest foods.
June 2022 240 pages
In Farmers’ Market Favorites you’ll find the best, tried & true recipes to get the tastiest meals on the table. Wake up your family to Blueberry Buckle Coffee Cake or pancakes topped with Fresh Raspberry Butter. For lunch, whip up Dilly Chicken Sandwiches or Ranch BLT Wraps with a yummy side of Crispy Zucchini Fritters or Tangy Summer Slaw. So, come along with us to the farmers’ market for wholesome, delicious food and where old-fashioned neighboring is still a part of every day. Includes 222 recipes.
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Paperback 978-1-6209-3463-0 $9.95 / £7.95 Hardback (2016) 978-1-62093-186-8 $16.95 / £12.95
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Our Favorite Bacon Recipes By Gooseberry Patch
Back by popular demand, with a new cover. What’s the one ingredient that makes everything taste amazing? Bacon, of course! Our Favorite Bacon Recipes cookbook is filled with recipes that include everyone’s favorite savory ingredient.
Imprint: Gooseberry Patch
You’ll find a mouthwatering recipe for every bacon craving, from breakfast & brunch to appetizers and dinner. We even have a recipe for chocolate-bacon cupcakes! From baconwrapped egg cups and bacon griddle cakes for breakfast, bacon-cheese dip and tomato-bacon nibbles for appetizers, to bacon & sage roast turkey and bacon-florentine fettuccine for dinner, if you love bacon, we’ve got you covered!
Spiralbound 978-1-6209-3454-8 $8.95 / £6.95 eBook (2017) 978-1-6209-3225-4 $5.99 / £4.95
April 2022 128 pages
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