The Science Factory
Frankfurt Book Fair 2020
RECENT WORLD RIGHTS SALES In addition to the titles described in previous pages, the Science Factory has done world-rights deals for the following books. For further information, please contact the publishers directly. THE HYDROGEN REVOLUTION by Marco Alverà (Hodder Studio/Basic Books, 2021) CAN FISH COUNT? What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds by Brian Butterworth (Quercus/Basic Books, 2022) THE IDEA OF THE BRAIN: A History by Matthew Cobb (Profile, 21 April, 2020) – US rights sold on to Basic Books LIFE, EDITED: Genetic Engineering, Utopia and Technofear by Matthew Cobb (Profile, 2024) – US rights sold on to Basic Books NUMBERS IN MINUTES by Julia Collins (Quercus, 7 November 2019) UNDERSTANDING NUMBERS: Simplify Life’s Mathematics, Decode the World Around You by Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas (White Lion Publishing/Quarto, 11 April 2019) INVISIBLE ALLIES by Tom Ireland (Hodder & Stoughton, 2022) COLDER: How We Use Extreme Cold to Save Lives, Change Medicine and Alter Our Experience of Space and Time by Philip Jaekl (Public Affairs, 2021) THE RULES OF CONTAGION: How Outbreaks Happen – From Ideas to Infectious Diseases by Adam Kucharski (Profile, 12 February 2020) – US rights sold on to Basic Books THE MILKY WAY: An Unauthorised Autobiography by Moiya McTier (Grand Central, 2022) THE GENESIS QUEST: The Geniuses and Madmen Who Tried to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth by Michael Marshall (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 20 August 2020) – US rights sold on to University of Chicago Press LIQUID: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik (Viking UK, 6 September 2018) – US rights sold on to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt IT’S A GAS by Mark Miodownik (Viking UK, 2020) – US rights sold on to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt IFL SCIENCE 117: Things You Should F*#king Know About Your World by Paul Parsons (Running Press, 8 October 2019) APOLLO REMASTERED by Andy Saunders (Penguin Press UK, 2022) WATCHING THE DETECTIVES: The Birth of a Modern Hero by P. D. Smith (Bloomsbury, 2022) EINSTEIN’S WAR: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World by Matthew Stanley (Viking UK, 23 May 2019) – US rights sold on to Dutton/Penguin US – represented by Jeff Shreve DO DICE PLAY GOD? The Mathematics of Uncertainty by Ian Stewart (Profile, 6 June 2019) – US rights sold on to Basic Books THE USES OF MATHEMATICS by Ian Stewart (Profile, 2021) – US rights sold on to Basic Books LIVING IN DATA by Jer Thorp (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) MOVE: The New Science of Body Movement and How it Can Set Your Mind Free by Caroline Williams (Profile, 2021) – US rights sold on to Hanover Square Press THE POWER OF RITUAL: How Rituals Soothe, Excite, Divide and Unite Us by Dimitris Xygalatas (Profile, 2020) THE DANCE OF LIFE: Symmetry, Cells and How We Become Human by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and Roger Highfield (W. H. Allen/Ebury, 27 February 2020) – US rights sold on to Basic Books
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