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THE PATH: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach us About the Good Life
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THE PATH: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach us About the Good Life by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh 
AGENT: The Gillian MacKenzie Agency PUBLISHER(S): US - Simon & Schuster, UK – Viking Penguin RIGHTS SOLD: Bulgarian – BARD, Chinese – Citic, Dutch - Uitgeverij Ten Have, French – Belfond, German – Fischer, Italian – Einaudi, Japan – Hayakawa, Korea – Gimm-Young, Norway – Flux, Poland – Amber, Portuguese (Brazil) – Intrinseca, Taiwanese – Ars Longa, Spanish – Seix Barral, Turkish - Koridor Yayinlari PUBL. DATE: Spring 2016 DEL. DATE: Spring 2015 MATERIAL: proposal available ABOUT THE BOOK: This book – which was sold in a major US deal to S&S - is based on the life-changing lessons taught by a charismatic Harvard professor Professor Michael Puett in the university’s third most popular course – surprisingly a course on ancient Chinese philosophy. Delving into the texts of philosophers who lived thousands of years ago, Professor Puett guides his students through eastern teachings that remain applicable today, helping them to reconsider their cultural assumptions about ambition, power, happiness, creativity, planning, and relationships, and allowing them to see new approaches to daily life. THE PATH distills the lessons of Puett’s revolutionary Harvard course, helping readers everywhere apply these ideas to their everyday lives. Using the lessons of six Chinese philosophers, Puett shows how subtle shifts in how you think and how you attend to your life have grand repercussions. THE PATH is everything western thought is not: it advocates self-discovery through looking outward, not inward; it says power and influence are gained through passivity, not dominance; it demonstrates that the overall quality of your relationships are largely determined by small gestures; that spontaneity only can be found through training; and that you can do whatever it is you wish to do, no matter your inherent skills. Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. He is the author of several books and in 2013 was awarded a Harvard College Professorship for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Christine Gross-Loh is an author and journalist, whose writing has appeared in a number of publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic Online and the Huffington Post. Her book Parenting Without Borders was published by Avery in 2013. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University in East Asian history.
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AGENT: Andrew Lownie Literary Agency PUBLISHER(S): US - Colombia, UK - Icon RIGHTS SOLD: Russian – BKL, Spanish - Ediciones de Intervencion Cultural SL PUBL. DATE: March 2015 ABOUT THE BOOK: Ever since the completion of the human genome over a decade ago, scientists have been struggling to understand some of its counter-intuitive findings. One of these was the realisation that humans contain pretty much the same number of genes as a tiny and simple worm. The genes are not only similar in number between the two species, but encode very similar proteins. Another astonishing discovery is that around 98% of the human genome doesn’t code for proteins at all. So why do humans contain so much of this type of DNA, which until very recently had been dismissed as “junk”? JUNK explores the exciting new developments in our understanding of human DNA. It lays out the latest science that shows how the so-called junk DNA is in reality highly functional, but operates in a completely different way from the traditional genes. This previously neglected 98% of our genome may hold the answers to a remarkable range of questions, from the reasons why humans are so complex, to the mechanisms of ageing, and even new ways to treat devastating human diseases. Nessa Carey has a PhD in virology from the University of Edinburgh and has had successful careers in both the university and commercial settings. She was a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College School of Medicine in London, and for ten years has worked in the biotech industry, trying to take basic science discoveries and turn them into new treatments for human diseases. Over the last four years she has been working with some of the world’s leading scientists in the exciting new field of epigenetics, and her book The Epigenetics Revolution was critically acclaimed study of the subject. SALES OF PREVIOUS TITLES: Basque - University of the Basque Country Press, Russian – Phoenix, Spanish - Ediciones de Intervencion
PUBLISHER(S): UK – Icon Books Ltd RIGHTS SOLD: Korean - Frelec PUBL. DATE: January 2015 ABOUT THE BOOK: A reference tool for informed modern living that separates scientific truth from media myth. Science plays a fundamental role in all our lives – improving health, increasing life expectancy, enhancing life experience. Yet it can be difficult to get a practical picture of what really is best for us – a kind of science recipe book for you and your family. SCIENCE FOR LIFE presents the best of current scientific advice, cutting through all the vested interests and confusing contradictory statements to give anyone a clear picture of what science is telling us right now about changing our lives for the better. Discover the much-advertised antioxidants that aren’t good for you, the truth about fat and sugar and why one of the healthiest foods contains carcinogens and 21 E-numbers. Find out what does and what doesn’t enhance brainpower – from the failure of playing Mozart to babies to the surprising abilities of caffeine and nicotine. Understand the tools that advertisers use to persuade us and how to turn the psychological pressure back on them. From the shortcomings of the five second rule to the truth about phone masts and nuclear power, kept up-to-date on a partnering website, SCIENCE FOR LIFE is your guide to surviving and thriving in the modern world. Brian Clegg studied physics at Cambridge University and specialises in making the strangest aspects of the universe, from infinity to time travel and quantum theory, accessible to the general reader. He is editor of www.popularscience.co.uk and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His previous books include Inflight Science, Build Your Own Time Machine, The Universe Inside You, Dice World and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide His next book will be the ultimate science quiz book HOW MANY MOONS DOES THE EARTH HAVE to be released in November 2015. SALES OF PREVIOUS TITLES: Chinese/simplified - Chongqing Publishing House/ Zhe Jiang University Press; Danish – Turbulenz; Dutch - Fontaine Uitgevers; French – EDP Sciences; German – Hanser; Italian - Zanichelli Editore/Dedalo; Japanese – NTT Publishing; Korean – XO Books/Nulmin Books; Russian – Popuri; Turkish - Kapital Media/ Say Yayinlari
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