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Volume book sales have increased for the last two years in Britain and no doubt in many other countries too. It is great to see independent publishers doing particularly well, and the Independent Alliance, of which we are proud to be a member, going from strength to strength. We love every book in this catalogue but highlight the Big Ideas series which we launch in January – important books by contemporary thinkers on challenging subjects – which just about sums up our ambitions for all our titles – with the odd amuse bouche thrown in to freshen the palette. 2007 has been an exciting year with Serpent’s Tail joining us. Please look at their catalogue too for some great books – chilli hot to vary the diet. And of course, we are completely indebted to our authors without whom there would be no books, no publishing and no Profile. Happy reading. Andrew Franklin Publisher

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Profile Books Catalogue 2008

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Volume book sales have increased for the last two years inBritain and no doubt in many other countries too. It is greatto see independent publishers doing particularly well, andthe Independent Alliance, of which we are proud to be amember, going from strength to strength.

We love every book in this catalogue but highlight the BigIdeas series which we launch in January – important booksby contemporary thinkers on challenging subjects – whichjust about sums up our ambitions for all our titles – with theodd amuse bouche thrown in to freshen the palette.

2007 has been an exciting year with Serpent’s Tail joiningus. Please look at their catalogue too for some great books –chilli hot to vary the diet.

And of course, we are completely indebted to our authorswithout whom there would be no books, no publishing andno Profile.

Happy reading.

Andrew Franklin Publisher

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Sam Gosling

SnoopThe Secret Language of Everyday Things

How a little harmless spying can speakvolumes

For ten years Sam Gosling has beenstudying how people project (and protect)their inner selves and how we formimpressions of others. His ingeniousresearch is carried out by teams ofscientific snoops who poke around inpeople’s homes and offices. Often ourpossessions and daily lives canunexpectedly say more about us than evenour most intimate conversations.

Once you know what signs to look out for,you can see how reliable a new boyfriendis by peeking into his bathroom cabinet orcheck whether an employee is committedto her job by analysing her desk. Theinsights we gain can boost ourunderstanding of ourselves and sharpenour perceptions of others. Packed withoriginal research and fascinating stories,Snoop is a captivating guidebook to ournot-so-secret lives.

£15.00288ppDemy hbkISBN: 978 1 84668 018 2Non FictionJune 2008World excl USA/Can

Sam Gosling studied atLeeds University and is nowan assistant professor ofpsychology at the Universityof Texas at Austin. Hisresearch is discussed inMalcolm Gladwell’sbestseller Blink. Snoop is hisfirst book.

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Christopher McDougall

Born to RunThe Rise of Ultra-running and the Super-athlete Tribe

‘Make friends with pain and you willnever be alone’

Born to Run tells the amazing story of theTarahumara, a mysterious tribe ofMexican Indians who are reputed to be thebest distance runners in the world. In 1993one of them won the prestigious 100-mileLeadville race in Colorado wearing a togaand sandals – and he was fifty-seven-yearsold. Christopher McDougall describeshere how he and the world’s top ultra-runners made the treacherous journey to learn the tribe’s techniques, and thenrace them.

McDougall tells this story while askingwhat the secrets are to being an ultra-runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike and elsewhere, he comes across anincredible cast of characters – includingthe woman who recently broke the worldrecord for 100 miles and for her encore rana marathon, pausing to down a beer atmile twenty.

Christopher McDougall isa contributing editor forMen’s Health and writer-at-large for Runner’s World.He has been a sportswriterfor Esquire and the NewYork Times magazine andhas run numerous long-distance races, includingthe Death Valley marathon.

£16.99320pp plus 16pp b/w illsDemy hbkISBN: 978 1 86197 823 3SportJune 2008World excl USA/Can

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Slavoj Zizek

ViolenceA controversial study of violence by the‘Elvis of cultural theory’

Slavoj Zizek is one of the most importantcultural theorists of our time. Tickets forhis lectures sell out weeks in advance anda peer-reviewed journal is devoted to hiswork. But his unique combination of highand low culture, his capacity to fascinatethe uninitiated and subvert the rules ofacademia have taken his fame far beyondthe world’s lecture halls. This Slovenianacademic turned cultural icon has beencalled ‘the Marx brother of political theory’and the ‘one person culture mulcher’.

In this controversial and sharp analysis,the ‘giant of Ljubljana’ casts a sidewaysglance at the subject of violence. Heexamines its hidden forms and causes,delving into the supposed ‘divine violence’which propels suicide bombers and theunseen ‘systemic’ violence which liesbehind outbursts, in Paris, New Orleansand beyond. Agree with him or not, Zizekprovokes thought like few others.

Launch title in the Big Ideas series edited byLisa Appignanesi: contemporary thinkers,challenging subjects.

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Slavoj Zizek is the authorof over forty books and hasbeen dubbed ‘an academicrock star’. He is currentlythe international director ofthe Centre for AdvancedStudies in the Humanities atBirkbeck in London.

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Paul Ginsborg is professorof contemporary Europeanhistory at the University ofFlorence. He writes formany internationalnewspapers, including theLRB.

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Paul Ginsborg

DemocracyA bold new analysis of our politicalsystem

Political parties have lost a largepercentage of their membership andeffective power is ever more concentratedin the hands of their leaders. Behind thesetrends lie changing relationships betweeneconomics, the media and politics.Electoral spending has spiralled out ofcontrol, with powerful economic interestsexercising undue influence. The ‘levelplaying field’ on which democracy’scontests have supposedly been fought, hasbecome ever more sloping and uneven. Inmany ‘democratic’ countries mediacoverage, especially that of television, isheavily biased. Electors become viewersand active participation gives way to masspassivity.

In order to reanimate and re-legitimisemodern democracy, political historianPaul Ginsborg goes back to its roots andexamines anew the relationship betweenrepresentative and participatorydemocracy.

From the Big Ideas series: contemporarythinkers, challenging subjects.

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Julian Baggini

Complaint‘Oh, wouldn’t the world seem dull and flatwith nothing whatever to grumble at?’ W. S. Gilbert

We love to complain – as letters pages,phone-ins and blogs demonstrate. Butthere has been no book on the subject –until now.

Conversation would be extremely limitedif we stopped moaning. But where oncewe complained about things that reallymattered, now we whinge about late trainsand bad TV. Often our complaints are mis-guided: we think political parties shouldbicker less, but we also complain thatthere’s nothing to choose between them.

Ranging from God’s protests towardsAdam and Eve, to the French andAmerican revolutions, and the reaction tothe war on Iraq, this book examines whywe complain; the different kinds ofcomplaints we make; why men andwomen complain about different things;and why we complain less thanAmericans. You can’t complain about that!

From the Big Ideas series: contemporarythinkers, challenging subjects.

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Julian Baggini is a Britishphilosopher. His booksinclude Welcome toEverytown and The Pig thatWants to be Eaten (bothGranta) and he is co-founder and editor of ThePhilosophers’ Magazine.

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Charles Leadbeater

We-thinkThe Power of Mass Creativity

The future is us

Once there was mass consumption, butincreasingly our society is based on massparticipation. Wikipedia, YouTube andCraigslist are all innovative examples; soare new forms of scientific research andpolitical campaigning.

We-think is about what the rise of thesephenomena means for the way weorganise ourselves – not just in digitalbusinesses but in schools and hospitals,cities and mainstream corporations. Thisis a huge cultural shift. Gone is HenryFord’s model of mass production for massconsumption; people want to be players,not spectators. Charles Leadbeateranalyses these changes and describes howthey will affect us and how we can makethe most of them.

In the spirit of its argument, early portionsof We-think were published online atwww.wethinkthebook.net.

Charles Leadbeater is oneof the world’s authoritieson creativity, havingadvised organisations fromthe BBC and RSC toVodafone and Microsoft.His previous books includeLiving on Thin Air and Upthe Down Escalator.

£12.99256ppDemy pbk originalISBN: 978 1 86197 892 9Non FictionMarch 2008World excl USA/Can

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Duncan Fallowell

Going As Far As I Can The ultimate travel book

‘Mordant, energetic and outrageous …’Camille Paglia

When Duncan Fallowell was left somemoney he decided to put into practice along held idea – to travel as far as possiblefrom home. Why? ‘So that I need nevertravel again – and I could relax,’ he says.For him this meant travelling to NewZealand, where in the event anotherfantasy soon asserted itself – ‘to find theplace of perfect exile’. A beach, a cottage, aperson? This man’s curiosity leads himonto the strangest paths and he findshimself in pursuit of unknown paintersand lost buildings and sex underground,of Karl Popper and a creature with thethird eye and rosé wine, of Vivien Leighand Laurence Olivier who’d toured thecountry in the year of Fallowell’s birth, ofsuicidal writers and nuns and elusiveanswers to impossible questions. Thefaraway paradise gradually turns into aglittering stranger on the Pacific rim, filledwith the uncertainties of our times – butalso a wonderful place to breathe.

£12.99256ppDemy hbkISBN: 978 1 84668 069 4TravelFebruary 2008World excl USA/Can

Duncan Fallowell was bornin London in 1948. He haswritten novels, travel booksand cultural journalism andworked extensively with theGerman musical group Can.

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Joyce Tyldesley

CleopatraLast Queen of Egypt

What lost a world, and bade a hero fly?The timid tear in Cleopatra’s eye.

The Romans regarded her as ‘fatalemonstrum’, a female tyrant. Pascal said theshape of her nose changed the history ofthe world. Shakespeare (and ElizabethTaylor) portrayed her as an icon of tragicbeauty. But who was Cleopatra, really?

She was the last ruler of the Greek dynastyof Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for threecenturies. Highly educated, shrewd andmanipulative (her liaisons with Caesar andMark Antony were as much political asromantic) she steered her kingdomthrough taxing internal strife and againstRoman imperialism.

Stripping away our preconceptions, manyof them as old as Cleopatra’s Romanenemies, skilled Egyptologist JoyceTyldesley gives us a colourful and detailedportrait of the famous Egyptian Queen.

Joyce Tyldesley’s booksinclude acclaimedbiographies of Rameses theGreat, the queensHatchepsut and Nefertitiand Egypt: How a LostCivilization wasRediscovered, whichaccompanied a major BBCtelevision series. She lives inBolton, Lancashire.

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Simon Dixon

Catherine the Great‘I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.’

Born an obscure German princess in 1729,branded a usurper and an assassin whenshe seized power, Catherine II, ‘the Great’,was to become by her death in 1796 themost celebrated monarch in Europe.During her thirty-four-year reign sheturned her new empire from peripheralpariah to European great power. Therewas no greater transformation of fortunesin the eighteenth century.

Hardworking, charismatic, formidably(and self-) educated, she had acommitment to ideas. Voltaire called her‘The Star of the North’. She also floutedfemale convention, consorting openlywith twelve successive favourites.

Empress, empire-builder, intellectual, art-collector, lover – this magnificent newbiography does full justice to a trulyremarkable ruler.

£25.00416pp with 32pp b/w illsRoyal hbkISBN: 978 1 86197 722 9HistoryApril 2008World excl USA/Can

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Simon Dixon is professor ofmodern history at LeedsUniversity, specialising inthe history of imperialRussia. His previous bookscovered Peter the Great andthe modernisation ofRussia.

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Tony Grant (ed.)

More From Our OwnCorrespondentThe most dangerous road in the worldand other dispatches

‘The jewel in Radio 4’s crown’ Sue Arnold, Observer

From Our Own Correspondent is a flagshipprogramme for BBC Radio 4 and theWorld Service and has been on air for overfifty years. In this sequel to the exceedinglypopular first volume, the BBC’s mostcelebrated correspondents, such as JohnSimpson, Lyse Doucet, Fergal Keane andAlan Johnston, take a closer look at thestories in their regions, describing muchmore than they can in a normal report.These dispatches from all around theworld offer reportage with insight, colourand analysis and show why FOOC, as it isaffectionately known, has become such awell-known and much-loved institution.

‘You don’t lose the detail in FOOC: itluxuriates in full, florid complexity.’ Guardian

Tony Grant has producedFrom Our OwnCorrespondent for fifteenyears. He is married to apolitical correspondent andthey have two children.He lives in London.

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Geremie Barmé & Bruce Doar

The Forbidden CityA palace of blood and tears at the heart ofChinese history

At the heart of Beijing lies the great walledpalace compound known as the ForbiddenCity whose mystique and history haveplayed a huge role in defining China. Thisbook is an amazing portrait of that storiedcollection of buildings which enables us tobetter understand the life of imperialChina.

First built by a Ming ruler in the fifteenthcentury, the Forbidden City was to be aterrestrial reflection of the celestial realmof the Jade Emperor. It was destroyed andrebuilt on an even more splendid scale bythe final Manchu Emperors. Here we learnabout the life that went on in thoseancestral temples, lacquered chambersand vermilion halls. Fifty years ago Maoconsidered razing it all to the ground, nowtourists shuffle through in tens ofthousands.

£15.99224pp with 20 b/w ills200 x 135mm hbkISBN: 978 1 84668 011 3HistoryJanuary 2008World excl USA/Can

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Geremie Barmé and BruceDoar both teach at thePacific and Asian Historydivision of the AustralianNational University,Canberra. Geremie Barméhas also worked on anumber of film projects.They jointly edit the onlineChina Heritage Quarterly.

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Rosemary Hill

Stonehenge ‘God knows what their use was’ – Samuel Pepys, 1668

The most famous prehistoric monumentin Europe, Stonehenge is visited byhundreds of thousands every year. Thegreat stones remain compelling becausethey are mysterious – were they built togreet the winter solstice, for goddessworship, as a funerary temple?

Rosemary Hill describes what is knownand believed about the monument’sconstruction from 3000 BC onwards. TheMiddle Ages were content with the story ofit having been brought by Merlin fromIreland. Post-Reformation antiquariesgave us the conception of Stonehenge as ahistorical monument. Then the Victoriansinvented prehistory and Darwin himselfcame to measure it. In 1918 it passed intopublic ownership and 1926 saw the firstforced entry by Druids. The EarthMysteries Movement now sees the stonesas a part of a greater web of ley lines andother phenomena. This rich andprovocative book explores all this inpresenting a monument whose history isas fascinating as its secret.

Rosemary Hill is ajournalist and culturalhistorian. Her God’sArchitect: Pugin and theBuilding of Romantic Britainwas published in 2007.She lives in London.

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Robert Shapiro

Futurecast 2020A Global Blueprint

The shape of the world to come

Robert Shapiro, an adviser to manyleading American politicians over theyears, from Daniel Moynihan to BillClinton, brings the wealth of hisexperience in international affairs tooutline the shape of the world to come. Heidentifies the huge global shifts that aretaking place in demographics, technologyand in political and economic power, asRussia reasserts itself and China and Indiacontinue to grow at such heady rates.

Shapiro predicts some seismic changesahead of us and a dramatically differentworld. His lucid and perceptive analysis –his 20:20 vision – is essential reading foranyone with an eye to what the futurereally holds for us all.

£17.99288ppRoyal hbkISBN: 978 1 86197 968 1Current AffairsFebruary 2008World excl USA/Can

Robert Shapiro has heldnumerous posts in USpolitics, advising BillClinton, Al Gore, John Kerry,Michael Dukakis and DanielMoynihan amongst others.He spent four years(1997–2001) as US UnderSecretary of Commerce forEconomic Affairs.

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Katherine Ashenburg hasworked as an academic, aradio producer and arts andbooks editor. She haswritten for the New YorkTimes and her booksinclude The Mourner’sDance: What We Do WhenPeople Die. She lives inToronto.

£12.99256pp with b/w illsDemy hbkISBN: 978 1 84688 095 3HistoryMarch 2008World excl USA/Can

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Katherine Ashenburg

CleanAn Unsanitised History of Washing

‘I return to Paris in five days. Stopwashing.’ Napoleon in a love letter toJosephine

For the Romans, being clean meant apublic two-hour soak in baths of varioustemperatures. For the seventeenth-centuryaristocratic Frenchman, it meant changinghis shirt once a day, and using perfume toobliterate both his scent and everyoneelse’s, but never immersing himself inwater. By the early 1900s an understandingof ‘germs’ and how to control them beganto enter mainstream society – a precursorto our own time of ubiquitous handsanitisers and germophobes who shakehands with their elbows. What haspropelled our habits to shift over time andwhat do they say about who we are andhow we live?

Katherine Ashenburg uses the seeminglyroutine task of washing (or not) as astarting point for a unique exploration of Western culture. Clean takes us on a journey that is by turn edifying,humorous, startling and not always for the squeamish.

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Sandra Koa Wing (ed.)

A People’s History of the Second World WarBy the writers of Mass Observation

‘Now I don’t think a great deal about the“war in general” – I try to only thinkabout day-to-day – even hour-to-hour –problems’ Nella Last

This powerful, detailed and heart-warming account of the Second WorldWar is told through the voices of thosewho wrote for the ‘Mass Observation’project – ordinary men and women ofalmost every age, class and occupation.

For years the British people enduredbombs and the threat of invasion, andmore than 140,000 civilians were killed orseriously wounded. This book tells thestory of life on the home front: people fear for their families, wonder at socialchanges and mourn destroyed potatofields, while still living their lives,complaining about colleagues and falling in love.

Sandra Koa Wing studiedlife history research at theUniversity of Sussex, whereshe was Mass Observation’sfirst development officer.She died in May 2007 atthe age of twenty-eight.

£8.99320pp plus 16pp b/w illsB format pbkISBN: 978 1 84668 088 5HistoryMarch 2008World

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‘Elegant, ironic, deeplyresearched mediationon what makesAmerica America’ Financial Times£8.99 June 2008978 1 86197 855 4

‘Lively and thought-provoking’ Sunday Telegraph£8.99 March 2008978 1 86197 784 7

‘Outstanding … dealswith a huge range ofthemes without losingnuance or historicalsensitivity’ Sunday Times£8.99 May 2008978 1 86197 788 5

Wonders of the World

‘Successfully capturesthe West’s fascinationwith Egypt’ Sunday Times£8.99 February 2008978 1 86197 339 9

‘This book reads likethe best sort ofbiography … fabulous’Clive Aslet, Sunday Telegraph£8.99 October 2008978 1 86197 951 3

Profiles in History

‘This fascinating bookunravels the complexstory of the mostfamous church in theworld’ Sunday Telegraph£8.99 April 2008978 1 86197 908 7

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Joe Moran

Queuing for BeginnersThe story of daily life from breakfast to bedtime

‘Wonderfully entertaining … every page pulses with humour’ Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

‘A thoroughly novel and refreshing way of looking at our recenthistory. I loved his book enormously.’ Andrew Marr

‘A book for everyone or, at least, for anyone who has ever waitedfor the kettle to boil and the toast to pop up, or sat on a sofa,crossed the road, gone to bed … Joe Moran writes more elegantlythan a social historian has any right to.’ Andrew Martin, Sunday Times

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David Edgerton

The Shock of the OldTechnology and Global History Since 1900

‘He eviscerates our obsession with novelty …’ Sunday Times

David Edgerton’s acclaimed The Shock of the Old is the first globalaccount of the place of old and new technology in twentieth-century history. This brilliant, thought-provoking book radicallyrevises our understanding of the relationship between technologyand society.

‘Marvellous stuff, and absolutely spot-on.’ Simon Jenkins

‘A thought-provoking analysis offering a clear vision of a worldblinded by the glare of shiny new stuff, but where bicycleproduction already outstrips car production.’ Sunday Telegraph

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Memoir

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Christopher Robbins

In Search of KazakhstanThe Land That Disappeared

‘A superlative addition to the literature of travel’ Observer

Award-winning author Christopher Robbins gives us the realstory on Kazakhstan. Crisscrossing the steppes and the cities,Robbins finds Eminem by a shrinking Aral Sea, joins nomadshunting with eagles, visits the scene of Dostoyevsky’s doomedfirst love and is enchanted by some of the most beautiful,unspoilt places on earth.

‘Extremely entertaining and informative … hilarious.’ Daily Telegraph

Christopher Rush

Hellfire and HerringA Childhood Remembered

‘The book glitters with memory, like some marvellous parade’Independent on Sunday

‘A generous, mythic, deeply pagan book suffused with Bibleblackness, written to the pace of a lost time; it is also a vital workof regional literature, a work with saltwater in its veins’ Guardian

‘The tone is baroque, self-consciously, poetically literary, deeplyallusive, emotionally raw, sensual and brutally, bravely honest’Alan Taylor, Sunday Herald

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Lynne Truss

A Certain AgeTwelve monologues from the classic radio series

‘Truss is simply a huge talent’ Guardian

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, featuring Dawn French,Douglas Hodge and others, these twelve fictional monologuesare tales of love, romance, friendship and family. Here is the wifewho feels better when her husband disappears; the pedant whoundergoes a TV makeover; the swimmer who can’t escape theshadow of her sister. Whether describing fathers and daughters,married men, cat lovers or ‘other women’ Truss is alwaysbrilliantly perceptive.

Tony Wolf & Suzanne Franks

Get Out Of My Life – 2nd editionBut first take me and Alex into town

A parent’s guide to the new teenager

‘Brilliant, frank, witty, sensible’ Daily Mail

This new edition of the parenting classic and internationalbestseller has been updated to cover the latest developments in teenage life: the ipod, chat rooms, MSN, new drugs and new challenges. Teenagers are tough and anyone who has oneneeds help. Get Out Of My Life offers practical alternatives to anger, nagging and frustration and has specificrecommendations for developing better relationships with even the most troublesome teenagers.

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Atul Gawande

BetterA Surgeon’s Notes on Performance

‘A searing, deeply humane collection of essays about medicalpractice that has all the makings of a modern classic’ Sunday Times

‘Better is perfect bedside reading – although it might keep youawake – for doctors as well as patients, for the invalid and thehardy, for those too frightened to visit their GPs and, above all,for hypochondriacs. All will learn something of value from thisinfinitely wise and humane surgeon’ Tom Rosenthal, Daily Mail

‘Riveting, packed with insights, its luminous prose liftingeffortlessly off the page’ Independent

Atul Gawande

ComplicationsA Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science

‘I don’t know if Atul Gawande was born to be a surgeon – I verymuch suspect so – but he was certainly born to write’ Bill Bryson

‘In a series of touching, scary and riveting stories about illnessand healing, Gawande – a surgeon and philosopher – shows howmedicine is a fallible science in which logic and human needcollide’ Nicci Gerrard, Observer

‘Ever wondered how realistic ER is? Then read Gawande’s superbbook’ Scotland on Sunday

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Bernard Wasserstein

Israel & Palestine – 3rd editionWhy They Fight and Can They Stop?

The definitive concise history of the Israel–Palestine conflict,now updated to 2007

In spite of the current diplomatic impasse and continuingbloodshed, Professor Wasserstein offers a realistic andpersuasive basis for optimism in this revised and updatedinterpretation of the historical and contemporary realities of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Wasserstein challenges theconventional view of the struggle as driven primarily by irrational, nationalist and religious ideologies. Instead he focuses on population, land, labour and the social dynamics of political change.

David Smith

The Dragon and the ElephantChina, India and the New World Order

China, India and the new world order

The rise of China and India will be the outstanding developmentof the twenty-first century, raising fundamental questions aboutboth the structure of the world economy and the balance ofglobal geopolitical power. David Smith analyses the implicationsof a world that is tilting rapidly eastwards.

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Jane Vass

The Daily Mail Tax Guide 2008/2009

The best tax guide on the market and the first published afterthe budget

Nine out of ten people pay too much tax. Meanwhile the tax system hasbecome increasingly complicated and fines for late payment total £2 million a year. Clear, comprehensive and jargon-free, The Daily Mail Tax Guide provides all the help taxpayers need.

‘An essential tool for everyone who pays tax.’ Investors Chronicle

£9.99 352pp 210 x 156mm pbk ISBN: 978 1 84668 089 2 Personal Finance April 2008 World USTr

Wendy Walton & John Porteous

Inheritance Tax and Wealth Planning

Keep the tax man at bay

More and more ordinary people are being caught by a tax that many stillthink affects only the very wealthy – but this is no longer true. Inheritancetax currently applies to all estates over £300,000 and the recent increase in property values means that many more people now face the shock of massive taxbills on top of the emotional trauma of losing a family member. This invaluableand expert guide explains the pitfalls and points to the escape routes.

£6.99 120pp A format pbk ISBN: 978 1 84668 096 0 Personal Finance January 2008 World USTr

W. J. King & James G. Skakoon

The Unwritten Laws of Business

‘Read this’ Guardian

Here are the ‘unwritten laws’ that guarantee success at work. Unknownto the modern reader, they resurfaced thanks to a company documentthat found an audience among America’s top CEOs – it turned out todraw heavily on a hidden gem published sixty years ago by the American Society ofEngineers. The Unwritten Laws of Business updates the original phenomenon. Clear, wise andpractical, it offers essential insights for everyone, from the intern to the Chief Executive.

£6.99 112pp A format pbk ISBN: 978 1 84668 042 7 Business February 2008 World excl USA/Can

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Philip Coggan

Guide to Hedge Funds

What they are, what they do, their advantages and their risks

In 1990 hedge funds managed some $39 billion of assets. By late2006 that figure had grown to a staggering $1.3 trillion. Equallystaggering is the amount of money successful hedge fundmanagers earn – in 2006 the top three earned over $1 billion each.

Though most people have heard of hedge funds, few are clearabout what exactly they are, or what they do. This guide, writtenby one of Britain’s most experienced and highly regardedfinancial journalists, provides a clear survey of the industry for allthose who think they should know about hedge funds.

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ECONOMIST NEW TITLES

Philip Coggan writes aboutfinancial markets for TheEconomist having previouslyworked for twenty years as theinvestment editor of theFinancial Times.

Pablo Triana has worked inderivatives trading in New York,London and Madrid. Now aprofessor at Instituto de Empresabusiness school in Madrid, he isalso a regular contributor tonewspapers such as the Financial Times.

Pablo Triana

Guide to Derivatives

A clear and authoritative explanation of the sophisticated world of derivatives

Between 1999 and 2004 the value of contracts traded on optionsexchanges worldwide soared from $62 trillion to $312 trillion,making derivatives the world’s largest financial market. Butderivatives are sophisticated products, and a lack ofunderstanding can result in big losses.

This guide explains derivatives to the non-specialist – what theyare, how they work, their uses and their risks. It is written in plainEnglish and is supported by an easy reference glossary of terms.

£20.00 288pp Demy hbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 847 9

Finance and Business

June 2008World excl USA/Can Tr

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John Tennent

Finance:

A Guide for Managers

Business finance explained in a practical and accessible way

Managers are expected to make decisions fully understanding thefinancial consequences, but in the absence of formal training fewpeople are prepared to deal with the responsibility ofmanagement reports, budgets and capital proposals.

This book is a clear and practical guide to understanding andmanaging financial responsibilities, explaining how to assemblea budget, read variances on a report and construct a proposal toinvest in new equipment. By walking the reader through thethings that managers actually do, the book will help themunderstand financial jargon, financial statements, managementaccounts, performance measures, budgeting, costing, pricing,decision-making and investment appraisal.

£20.00 256pp Demy hbk ISBN: 978 1 86197 809 7

Business and Management

April 2008World excl USA/Can

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ECONOMIST NEW TITLES

John Tennent is co-author of theGuide to Business Modelling,and an accountant with overtwenty years’ experience withfirms such as Unilever, BAE,Kraft, BT and EMI.

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‘On only two scores can The Economist hope to outdo

its rivals consistently. One is the quality of its analysis

and the other is the quality of its writing.’

from The Economist Style Guide

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INTERNATIONALBESTSELLERS

Robert Greene has a degree in ClassicalStudies and has been an editor at Esquireand other magazines. He is a writer and aplaywright and lives in Los Angeles.

Now in concise format

‘Hollywood producers and rappers are following anunlikely but ruthless guru’ Sunday Times

‘It is translatable to virtually every facet of daily life … arich mine of ideas and information. [Greene] has placedat our disposal a diverse armoury of historical wisdom ina readable and stimulating format.’ Scotland on Sunday

ROBERT GREENE28

£6.99

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978 1 86197 998 8

£14.99

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978 1 86197 978 0

Robert Greene, the ‘modern Machiavelli’, distils the most important lessons from history, to help you get ahead.

His complete ‘amoral series’ is now available in original and concise formats.

NEW

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ROBERT GREENE

‘Will appeal to all armchair megalomaniacs… a whirlwind tour of 3,000 years of powerpolitics’ Daily Mail

‘Teaches you how to cheat, dissemble,feign, fight and advance your cause in themodern world’ Independent on Sunday

‘What Greene does so masterfully in hisbook is to take us on a fascinating trip intothe psyches of the great seducers and offera wealth of strategies for those who mightlike to dabble in the murky waters ofmanipulation themselves’ Daily Mail

Robert Greene’s next book, The 50th Law,co-authored with rapper 50 Cent,

will be published in September 2008.

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INDEX OF TITLES

BACKLIST

PROFILE BOOKS3A Exmouth House, Pine Street, Exmouth Market, London, EC1R 0JH

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48 Laws of PowerRobert Greene 29

The Art of SeductionRobert Greene 29

BetterAtul Gawande 20

Born to RunChristopher McDougall 3

Catherine the GreatSimon Dixon 10

A Certain AgeLynne Truss 20

CleanKatherine Ashenburg 15

CleopatraJoyce Tyldesley 9

ComplaintJulian Baggini 6

ComplicationsAtul Gawande 21

The Daily Mail Tax Guide 2008/2009Jane Vass 23

The Dragon and the ElephantDavid Smith 22

DemocracyPaul Ginsborg 5

Dr Livingstone, I presumeClare Pettitt 17

Finance: A Guide for ManagersJohn Tennent 25

The Forbidden CityGeremie Barmé & Bruce Doar 12

Fourth of July Peter de Bolla 17

Futurecast 2020Robert Shapiro 14

Get Out Of My LifeTony Wolf & Suzanne Franks 20

Going As Far As I CanDuncan Fallowell 8

GuernicaIan Patterson 17

Guide to DerivativesPablo Triana 24

Guide to Hedge Funds Philip Coggan 24

Hellfire and HerringChristopher Rush 19

Inheritance Tax and WealthPlanningWendy Walton & John Porteous 23

In Search of Kazakhstan Christopher Robbins 19

Israel & PalestineBernard Wasserstein 22

More From Our OwnCorrespondentTony Grant (ed.) 11

A People’s History of WWIISandra Koa Wing (ed.) 16

Queuing for BeginnersJoe Moran 18

Rosetta Stone John Ray 17

The Shock of the Old David Edgerton 18

SnoopSam Gosling 2

StonehengeRosemary Hill 13

St PancrasSimon Bradley 17

St Peter’s Keith Miller 17

The Unwritten Laws of BusinessW. J. King & James G. Skakoon 23

ViolenceSlavoj Zizek 4

WarRobert Greene 28

We-thinkCharles Leadbeater 7

Business 32–35

Economist 26–27

General 36–41

Recently published 30–31

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