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THE SHARK'S PAINTBRUSH
HARMAN, JAY
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
Today an interdisciplinary group of scientists, inventors, engineers and entrepreneurs are turning to nature's
time-tested designs to innovate. The principle driving this transformation is called "biomimicry," and in a little over
a decade, it has already created some powerfully profitable enterprises and become one of the most prolific
business philosophies of our time. With genuine passion and keen insight, Harman presents a comprehensive
view of how businesses, big and small, and aspiring entrepreneurs can borrow from natural models to invent
lucrative and environmentally-friendly solutions to pressing industrial challenges.
SCIENCE 1ST PRINTING 50,000
DOUBLEDAY 336 PAGES
9780385535717
$29.95 HC
JANUARY 2013
SHE MATTERS
SONNENBERG, SUSANNA
A ruthless and illuminating exploration of the friendships that dominated, influenced, nourished, inspired, haunted
—and sometimes tore her apart—Susanna Sonnenberg has written a book as searing and superb as her first
book about her mother, Her Last Death. Childhood friendships, friendships with older women, friendships that
play out with the passion and intensity of love affairs, the friendships between new mothers—each has its own
subtleties, its own lessons that Sonnenberg examines and understands with astounding acuity. Sonnenberg’s
style is investigative and ruminative; the result is candid and fearlessly observed portraits of the nuances and
complexities of friendships that become universally recognizable.
MEMOIR 1ST PRINTING 60,000
SCRIBNER 288 PAGES
9781439190586
$27.99 HC
JANUARY 2013
THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE
SILVER, NATE
Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can
distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society,
because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople
mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If
our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the “prediction paradox”: The
more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the
future.
CURRENT AFFAIRS 1ST PRINTING 75,000
PENGUIN PRESS 352 PAGES
9781594204111
$29.50 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
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