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THE UNIVERSE WITHIN
SHUBIN, NEIL
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
In his last book, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human anatomy--our hands, our
jaws--and the structures in the fish that first took over land 375 million years ago. Now, with his trademark clarity
and exuberance, he takes an even more expansive approach to the question of why we are the way we are.
Starting once again with fossils, Shubin turns his gaze skyward. He shows how the entirety of the universe's 14billion-year
history can be seen in our bodies. From our very molecular composition (a result of stellar events at
the origin of our solar system), he makes clear, through the working of our eyes, how the evolution of the cosmos
has had profound effects on the development of human life on earth.
SCIENCE 1ST PRINTING 100,000
PANTHEON 272 PAGES
9780307378439
$28.95 HC
JANUARY 2013
THE UNIVERSE WITHIN
TUROK, NEIL
The most anticipated nonfiction book of the season, this year’s Massey Lectures is a visionary look at the way
the human mind can shape the future by world-renowned physicist Neil Turok.
SCIENCE
HOUSE OF ANANSI 264 PAGES
9781770890152
$19.95 TP Original
SEPTEMBER 2012
UNTITLED MEMOIR
LOVE, COURTNEY
From her rocky relationship with her hippy parents to her days spent stripping to make ends meet to the truth
behind her much-publicized drug abuse and recovery, Untitled is a riveting story, too crazy not to be true. It is a
coming of age tale, beginning in the San Francisco and Portland counter-culture, maturing within the everevolving
world of punk and grunge in the '80s and ‘90s, and revealing an artist who, time after time, found herself
at the epicenter of alternative culture as it reached its tipping point. Nothing is off limits here, not her
relationships with alternative rock icons Billy Corgan and Trent Reznor, nor her engagement to actor Ed Norton,
and for the first time, her heavily scrutinized marriage to Kurt Cobain will be revealed as the tragic romance it
truly was. While she doesn’t shy away from tales of excess, Courtney also goes deeper, offering unique insight
into both the modern rock culture she indelibly shaped and her own soul. As it captures her perennial journey
from the fringe of pop culture to the flaming center and back again—demonstrating Love’s flair for reinvention
and her ability to stay relevant without losing her trenchancy. It is an honest portrait of Courtney Love, an
outspoken, creatively dangerous, and undeniably entertaining artist and woman who continues to shape popular
culture—and who will do so for years to come.
MUSIC/MEMOIR 1ST PRINTING 250,000
WILLIAM MORROW 464 PAGES
9780062127952
$38.99 HC
OCTOBER 2012
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