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Recent Sales
University of Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum's Not for Profit: A Plea for Liberal Education, calling for the recognition that education, as the center of both our ethics and our arts, cannot merely be about becoming smart or productive, but must be about becoming a true citizen of the nation and the world. To Princeton.
Scholar and essayist Pamela Haag's Marriage and Its Discontents, a probing, yet often humorous guide to the author's own generation's struggles to revitalize marriage; a portrait of the surprises that overtook a generation of women ready to throw off the old marital script but not fully prepared for the twists and turns that come with rewriting the rules. To Gail Winston at HarperCollins.
Bestselling author Chris Mooney's The Two Cultures, to be written with scientist Sheril Kirshenbaum, about the continuing divide between science and politics, and science and the humanities, first articulated by C. P. Snow fifty years ago and even more relevant now. To Basic Books.
Associate Professor of English Linda Leavell's Possessed to Write: The Biography of Marianne Moore, the first biography to be written with the full cooperation of the Moore Estate, and the first to relate Moore's unusual private life to her poetry. To Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
University of Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum's Loving the Nation: Toward a New Patriotism, to be written with her student, Jeffrey Israel, as they offer a redefinition of patriotism as an essential quality of the citizen who would do good in the community, the nation, and the world. To Basic Books.
Middle East scholar and best-selling author (The Shia Revival) Vali Nasr's untitled book on the Middle East, concentrating on Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey to explain how events in those countries, and, by extension in the rest of the Middle East illustrate emerging trends in the region and why these trends are being misread in the West. World rights. To The Free Press.
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, historian John Fonte's Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or Be Ruled by Others?, which will explain why the 21st century may see liberal democracy and the nation state come to exist in name only; the story of the global governance movement, how it has created a post-democratic Europe through the European Union, and how it threatens to create a post-democratic United States through a weakening of national sovereignty, national identity, mass immigration without integration, and the formation of a bi-national state. To Encounter Books.
Founder of INNERKIDS, a program affiliated with the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, Susan Kaiser Greenland's Raising the Mindful Child: How to Help Your Kid De-stress Childhood and Become a Happier, Kinder, and More Compassionate Adult, a groundbreaking parenting book based on Greenland's mindfulness training relaxation techniques for children as young as four all the way through young adulthood. To The Free Press.
Professor of Archeology and author of The Little Ice Age, Brian Fagan’s The Great Freezing, which examines how extreme climate conditions and extreme changes in those conditions favored the intelligent Cro-Magnons and sealed the fate of the Neanderthals. To Bloomsbury.
Civil War historian Tom Chaffin's The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy, the story of the first submarine in world history to sink an enemy ship and to perish itself in the act. In a tour-de-force of document-sleuthing and insights gleaned from the excavation of this remarkable vessel in 2000, Chaffin's saga begins far before the submarine was even assembled, continues to the boat's final hours, and thoroughly examines the claims and counterclaims that emeged in 2000 with its rescue. To Hill and Wang.
Comedian Jeff Mac’s Manslations, a humorous guide to translating male behavior for women, in which he debunks male behavior myths, gives practical advice on relationship problems, and answers mind-boggling questions like, “How can I get a guy to shut up about himself and tell me that I'm pretty?” To Sourcebooks.
Lucy Knisley’s graphic travelogue, French Milk—which USA Today has declared “wonderful”—the story of Knisley’s six-week stay with her mother in a quirky little flat in Paris’s fifth arrondissement, where both celebrate milestone birthdays as they soak up all the sights, sounds, and tastes of a Paris straight out of central casting. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Knisley is currently pursuing an MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies on a “Diamond in the Rough” scholarship funded by CCS and Diamond Comics. To Simon & Schuster's Touchstone Fireside.
25-year-old graphic artist Cristy C. Road’s Bad Habits, an illustrated novel about drugs, sex and love in underground New York City, which takes readers on an uncensored tour of her world, in which street psychopharmacology results in both revelatory and tragic experiences. To Soft Skull.
Head of NYU’s Center on Law and Security, Karen Greenberg’s The Least Worst Place: How Guantanamo Became the World's Most Notorious Prison, the story of Gitmo's first 100 days, when its commander and his team rebelled against the Pentagon and tried to uphold the traditional military code of honor by following the Geneva Conventions. To Oxford University Press.
Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft, a book that decries the decline of shop class, arguing the merits of manual labor, competence and craftsmanship in the age of information. The book is based on an article of the same name which received a 2006 Sidney Award, created by David Brooks at the New York Times to honor the best magazine essays of the year. To Penguin Press
Oxford University historian Rana Mitter's The Enduring War: The Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45 and how it Changed the Course of Asian history, which draws on new archival materials to reinterpret the roles of Chiang Kaishek and Mao Zedung during the war years. Mitter also examines Americas's actions during World War II arguing that if the West hadn't abandoned the Chinese in their hour of need, China might have taken a very different path after the war. To Houghton-Mifflin.
Wendy Moffat's A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster is based on exclusive access to the complete private diaries of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists, revealing just how much his sexuality shaped everything he did and everything he wrote. This biography gives us a tidy, quiet, proper Englishman whose elaborate double life and deliberate psychological strategies allowed him fabulous success while pursuing a freedom and contentment his society deemed illicit. To Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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