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The Carbon Crunch
How We’re Getting Climate
Change Wrong – and How
to Fix It
Dieter Helm
Dieter Helm looks at how we
have failed to tackle the issue of
global warming and argues for a
new, pragmatic rethinking of
energy policy – from
transitioning from coal to gas
and eventually to electrification
of transport, to carbon pricing
and a focus on new technologies.
‘A powerful and heartfelt plea for hard-nosed realism.’
– Fred Pearce, New Scientist
‘[Helm] is far from being the first to tackle [this] issue, but
he is among the more influential and … one of the more
readable.’ – Pilita Clark, Financial Times
‘A provocative analysis and well worth the discomfort it will
likely engender.’ – Steve Yearley, Times Higher Education
Dieter Helm CBE is professor of energy policy, University of
Oxford and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford. He
is a member of the Economic Advisory Committee to the UK
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
August 288 pp. 198x129mm.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19719-8 £8.99*
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Good Italy, Bad Italy
Why Italy Must Conquer Its
Demons to Face the Future
Bill Emmott
In this analysis, now updated to
cover events up to the election of
February 2013, Bill Emmott
explores Italy’s fascinating dual
national character, the nation’s
descent into economic malaise
and political corruption, and
what can be done to ensure a
return to more prosperous, and
more democratic times.
‘[A] lucid and thoughtful book … it is written in a graceful
style that is stronger for its careful – even delicate –
illumination of personal and national failure than simply
offering a wilderness of denunciations.’ – Financial Times
‘An excellent account of what is rotten in the state of Italy.’
– Charles Grant, Literary Review
Bill Emmott was editor-in-chief of The Economist and is now
a freelance commentator on international affairs. He is a
regular columnist for The Times in London and La Stampa in
Italy. He is the author of several books, including The Sun Also
Sets: The Limits to Japan’s Economic Power.
Available 312 pp. 198x129mm.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19716-7 £8.99*
Translation rights: AWG Literary Agency, London
The End of the
Chinese Dream
Why Chinese People
Fear the Future
Gerard Lemos
This pathbreaking study
reveals the truth behind
exaggerated headlines about
China’s rapid rise. In fact
Chinese people face immense
personal, family, and financial
anxieties that destroy their
aspirations and communities.
This edition includes a new preface.
‘A fascinating insight into what the Chinese actually think.’
– Stephen Robinson, The Sunday Times
Gerard Lemos is a British expert on social policy. He advises
governments, businesses and charities. His first book, in
collaboration with the celebrated sociologist Michael Young,
was The Communities We Have Lost and Can Regain. He is
Acting Chairman of the British Council, in succession to Lord
Kinnock, a member of the British Board of Censors, and
holds a number of other public positions in British
institutions. He speaks Mandarin and is Visiting Professor at
Chongqing Technical University in south-west China.
October 312 pp. 198x129mm. 9 b/w illus.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19721-1 £10.99*
Translation rights: AWG Literary Agency, London
Syria
The Fall of the
House of Assad
David W. Lesch
One of the only Westerners
well acquainted with Assad
sheds new light on the
ophthalmologist-turned-tyrant
and how his regime failed Syria.
‘Detailed and thoughtful in
the potential outcomes for this
key Middle Eastern state.’
– Bookseller
‘In a thoughtful, often persuasive book, [Lesch] lays a useful
foundation for our fuller understanding of the Syrian crisis.’
– The Times
‘This is a fluent, well-organised piece of work that offers
clear insight into the workings of the Syrian regime.’
– Vincent Durac, Irish Times
David W. Lesch is professor of Middle East history, Trinity
University, San Antonio, Texas. He has written numerous
books on the Middle East and has travelled widely there on
scholarly, business and diplomatic endeavours. He is a
frequent consultant to US government departments on
Middle East issues.
June 288 pp. 198x129mm.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19722-8 £9.99*
Rights sold: Arabic