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CANCEL THE APOCALYPSE: The New Path to Prosperity by Andrew Simms General Non-Fiction | 352pp | Little, Brown | January 2013 | Korea; Duran Kim | Japan: EAJ “If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst’ Thomas Hardy The horsemen are galloping, and there‟s more than four of them. Climate change, financial meltdown, the global peak and decline of oil production, a mass extinction event of plant and animal species, over-use of fresh water supplies, soil loss, economic infrastructure increasingly vulnerable to external shocks – it‟s the age of the complex super disaster. An apocalypse seems almost inevitable. Can it be cancelled? This is a book about how modern life floated away from reality and needs to get back down to earth. It looks at how we tried to escape the forces of the economic, environmental and human reality, and why we could have better lives if we went with the world, rather than against it. The book asks why it is, in a world that can easily feed and shelter everyone alive today, and even a much larger population, that this proves so difficult. It looks at how people around the world today are already overcoming dogma to begin a great transition, and learn a new art of living. Andrew Simms is Policy Director of nef (the new economics foundation), an award winning UK think-and-do tank, and is on the board of Greenpeace UK. THE NAKED SCIENTIST: Everyday Life Under the Microscope by Chris Smith Popular Science | 304pp | Little, Brown | November 2012 | Korea: Duran Kim | Japan – Owls The scientific secrets of everyday life laid bare brought together in this brilliant compendium Why use expensive beauty products when you can moisturise with jellyfish? Have you ever suspected pollution was to blame for your children‟s plummeting IQ? Science does not sit still and, continuing with the success of Chris Smith‟s first book, THE NAKED SCIENTIST (rights with Random House Australia), this is the equally compelling and curious follow-up. In THE RETURN OF THE NAKED SCIENTIST you will discover a treasure trove of cutting-edge research and far-flung facts as you look into our scientific future. Chris Smith once again answers the questions you didn‟t know to ask. Dr. Chris Smith is a medical doctor and scientist, employed as a special registrar and clinical lecturer at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He is also the founder and driving force behind The Naked Scientist, a lively weekly science radio talkback show aired by the BBC. He has appeared regularly on ABC Radio National Breakfast and The Science Show in Australia. He is also well known for his hugely popular website www.thenakedscientist.com. He is the author of THE NAKED SCIENTIST (Little, Brown and Random House Australia) and the co-writer of Mythconceptions in the Good Weekend. 24
HISTORY EAVESDROPPING ON OUR ANCESTORS IN JANE AUSTEN’S ENGLAND by Roy & Lesley Adkins History | 352pp | Little, Brown | June 2013 | Korea: -- | Japan: -- An insight into the everyday lives of our 18 th century ancestors in Jane Austen’s England 1811 – Prince George ruled as regent in place of King George III who was declared insane. This was the world inhabited by Jane Austen, Lord Byron, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. In EAVESDROPPING ON OUR ANCESTORS, Roy and Lesley Adkins have turned their backs on the aristocracy, and have set out instead to describe the ordinary lives of the English working and middle classes, using as many quotations from contemporary sources as possible, including letters, diaries, travelogues, criminal trials, newspaper articles, censuses, even shopping lists. Our ancestors have a chance to tell their own stories. The book presents a snapshot of the era, reflecting the variety of life, and of the lives lived (by, incidentally, the great majority in the countryside. Only 20% lived in towns and cities, and London – the largest city in the world – contained the lion‟s share). This is not a narrative of events, but a narrative of people‟s lives. The authors therefore follow a loose chronological thread, which runs from the cradle to the grave, progressing through work and occupations, pastimes, marriages, illnesses, death and burial. Roy & Lesley Adkins are the authors of TRAFALGAR (Little, Brown 2004) and JACK TAR (Little, Brown 2008; an extraordinary read – The Daily Mail; Extraordinary... wonderful history – The Daily Telegraph). US rights Viking MERRIE ENGLAND by Juliet Barker History | 384 pp | 16 pages b+w picture section | Little, Brown | October 2014| Korea: -- | Japan: -- MERRIE ENGLAND concentrates on the Peasant‟s Revolt of 1381. The book is a forensic examination of the essentials of daily life: what people ate and drank, how they plied their trades, worshipped, amused themselves and observed the traditional rituals of the seasons. The dramatic and shocking events of this crisis provide a compelling narrative of the individual participants and the wide society they represented. The result is an important assessment of the revolt itself and an illuminating and original study of English medieval life at the time. Juliet Barker is the author of AGINCOURT (Little, Brown 2005) and CONQUEST (Little, Brown 2009). US rights Harvard University Press *SCIENTISTS OF THE GREAT WAR by Taylor Downing History | 304pp | Little, Brown | May 2014 | Korea: KCC | Japan: EAJ A lively, fresh, new look at the men who shaped the scientific war of 1914-18 The First World War is usually seen exclusively as a war fought by armies of millions living in trenches and slogging it out in human wave assaults on the Western Front, aided by a brutal science that introduced ghastly new inventions to the arsenal of war. Behind this common view of the war, there was, however, an unknown war fought by engineers, chemists, physicists, doctors, mathematicians, intelligence gatherers and information managers that made a more positive contribution to what happened at home, at the Front, at sea and in the air. They helped to fight a war that was won by scientific advantage, achievement and breakthrough in many fields that helped to transform life after the Great War. SCIENTISTS OF THE GREAT WAR profiles a small number of the key figures who made important contributions to different aspects of how the First World War was fought and presented to the public. It brings an entirely new take to the books marking the centenary of the Great War in 2014. Taylor Downing is the author of NIGHT RAID (Little, Brown 2013), SPIES IN THE SKY (Little, Brown 2011) and CHURCHIILL‟S WAR LAB (Little, Brown 2010). 25
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