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Foreign Rights Guide August 2012 – January 2013 Sky du Mont: FULL HOUSE A declaration of love to the chaos family Humor 224 pages 978-3-7857-2448-4 Hardcover August 2012 Family is the most beautiful thing in the world. Everyone who has a family knows that this is true. However, family is also the most stressful thing in the world. Everyone who has a family can tell you a thing or two about it. One is constantly challenged - no, better rephrase that: One is constantly overwhelmed. Basically, family is a synonym for disaster. Not a single day goes by without doctor’s appointments, warning letters from school, fights between the kids, disturbances of the mating peace in the middle of the night, unexpected visits from grandma and grandpa, all of this turning your marriage into a foot-in-mouth disease… Mirja and Sky du Mont share stories from their family life that offer insights into the daily insanity of a typical family of our times. No detail is too intimate and no secret is too dark: everything gets revealed in this book to give living proof that the grass is NOT greener on the other side. For this is the realization that each and every one of us has to face at one point or another: Family is a dangerous experiment; things go wrong all the time and, time and again, the results are surprising. Nevertheless, family is the most beautiful thing in the world. Now the time has come for a declaration of love to this perfectly normal insanity that finally gives the answers we have all been waiting for without turning a blind eye on the burning questions: „Why are we actually doing this to ourselves?“ – „Why didn’t I stay single? Am I crazy?“ or „What the heck am I actually doing here?“ This book enlightens, encourages and empowers but above all, it is a lot of fun. There will not be a single dry eye in the house. Schadenfreude and the confrontation with one’s own shortcomings, voyeurism and the relief that other people have the same problems will be equally balanced. Sky du Mont was born in Buenos Aires in 1947. In addition to numerous productions for public and private television stations, he appeared in a variety of Hollywood films including Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Moreover, Sky du Mont has published crime novels and together with his wife, Mirja, he wrote a book about the insanity of relationships. Bastei Lübbe GmbH & Co. KG - Foreign Rights Department - Schanzenstraße 6-20 - 51063 Köln - Germany Tel: +49 (0)2 21| 82 00 -27 04 or 27 00 - Fax: +49 (0)2 21| 82 00 17 04 Christian Stüwe (christian.stuewe@luebbe.de) 33
Foreign Rights Guide August 2012 – January 2013 Gunther Müller: FAT BIRDS ARE MORE LIKELY TO CHEAT ON THEIR PARTNERS Weird Insights from the World of Science Humor 208 pages 978-3-404-60688-7 Paperback July 2012 Madness meets progress. You’ve never seen research like this. The world of science does not consist exclusively of clever, groundbreaking research that furthers our knowledge. Some of the studies conducted simply leave you shaking your head. Yet as incredible as these studies sometimes are, they’re also funny and entertaining. Not only that, they also convey insights that appear to make no sense, which, as is well known, is the most exciting kind of knowledge. To cite a few examples: riding a roller coaster reduces asthma symptoms; chickens like beautiful people; and the effect of a heavy metal concert is similar to a fist fight. Gunther Müller has compiled the world's most preposterous studies and describes how they were conducted. What he discovered was more than just surprising insights. These research findings might even save lives because, after all, who knows whether an empty beer bottle is deadlier than a full one during a bar-room brawl. Gunther Müller was born in Dresden in 1980 and was educated at the University of Frankfurt. A political scientist, social scientist, and social psychologist, he is fascinated far more by the bizarre questions, curious methods, and peculiar insights of science itself than by any academic seminar. Bastei Lübbe GmbH & Co. KG - Foreign Rights Department - Schanzenstraße 6-20 - 51063 Köln - Germany Tel: +49 (0)2 21| 82 00 -27 04 or 27 00 - Fax: +49 (0)2 21| 82 00 17 04 Christian Stüwe (christian.stuewe@luebbe.de) 34
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