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Review Copy Submission Form Welcome to the PublicAffairs Spring 2010 list:

As always, I look forward to hearing which of the books and authors on our new list you and your colleagues are interested in working with. Please send your requests and I’ll do my best to accommodate them.

Whitney Peeling, Director of Publicity.
 
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  New Hardcovers
 
  Book Jacket   BEING THE CHANGE
How National Service and Social Entrepreneurship Can Empower Us All

ALAN KHAZEI

June

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  Book Jacket   BLOOD, IRON, AND GOLD
How the Railroads Transformed the World

CHRISTIAN WOLMAR

March

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  Book Jacket   BUILDING SOCIAL BUSINESS
The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs

MUHAMMAD YUNUS
WITH KARL WEBER

May

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  Book Jacket   CAPITALISM 4.0
Economics, Politics, and Markets After the Crisis

ANATOLE KALETSKY

June

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  Book Jacket   COMING THIS SPRING, A NEW BOOK FROM GEORGE SOROS ON PHILANTHROPY


GEORGE SOROS

June

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  Book Jacket   ECLIPSE OF THE SUNNIS
Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East

DEBORAH AMOS

March

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  Book Jacket   FAITH MISPLACED
The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations: 1820–2003

USSAMA MAKDISI

June

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  Book Jacket   MANDELA
A Biography

MARTIN MEREDITH

March

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  Book Jacket   MURDER IN THE HIGH HIMALAYA
Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet

JONATHAN GREEN

June

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  Book Jacket   POWER HUNGRY
The Myths of "Green" Energy, and the Real Fuels of the Future

ROBERT BRYCE

April

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  Book Jacket   RUNNING COMMENTARY
The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right

BENJAMIN BALINT

June

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  Book Jacket   SHIP OF FOOLS
How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger

FINTAN O'TOOLE

March

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  Book Jacket   STRANGE DAYS INDEED
The 1970s: The Golden Age of Paranoia

FRANCIS WHEEN

March

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  Book Jacket   THE BIG LIE
Spying, Scandal, and Ethical Collapse at Hewlett-Packard

ANTHONY BIANCO

May

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  Book Jacket   THE SOROS LECTURES
At the Central European University

GEORGE SOROS

February

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  Book Jacket   THE SUPREME COURT
A C-SPAN Book Featuring the Justices in Their Own Words

BRIAN LAMB, SUSAN SWAIN, AND MARK FARKAS, EDITORS

May

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  Book Jacket   THE ULTIMATE WEAPON IS NO WEAPON
Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace

SHANNON D. BEEBE AND MARY KALDOR

April

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  Book Jacket   THE UNWANTED SOUND OF EVERYTHING WE WANT
A Book About Noise

GARRET KEIZER

May

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  Book Jacket   WHEN THAT ROUGH GOD GOES RIDING
Listening to Van Morrison

GREIL MARCUS

April

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  New Paperbacks
 
  Book Jacket   A DIFFERENT LIFE
Growing Up Learning Disabled and Other Adventures

QUINN BRADLEE
WITH JEFF HIMMELMAN

March

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  Book Jacket   A SECOND OPINION
Rescuing America's Health Care

DR. ARNOLD RELMAN

June

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  Book Jacket   ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Great American Historians On Our Sixteenth President

A C-SPAN READER
EDITED BY BRIAN LAMB AND SUSAN SWAIN

April

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  Book Jacket   AFRICA
Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

RICHARD DOWDEN
FOREWORD BY CHINUA ACHEBE

March

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  Book Jacket   BY HIS OWN RULES
The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld

BRADLEY GRAHAM

June

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  Book Jacket   DESTINY DISRUPTED
A History of the World through Islamic Eyes

TAMIM ANSARY

April

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  Book Jacket   DREAD
How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu

PHILIP ALCABES

April

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  Book Jacket   ENOUGH
Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty

ROGER THUROW AND SCOTT KILMAN

June

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  Book Jacket   GETTING GREEN DONE
Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution

AUDEN SCHENDLER

June

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  Book Jacket   K BLOWS TOP
A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist

PETER CARLSON

July

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  Book Jacket   OCEANS
The Threats to our Seas and What You Can Do to Turn the Tide

A PARTICIPANT MEDIA GUIDE
EDITED BY JON BOWERMASTER

April

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  Book Jacket   POWER IN NUMBERS
UNITAID, Innovative Financing, and the Quest for Massive Good

PHILIPPE DOUSTE-BLAZY AND DANIEL ALTMAN
WITH A PREFACE BY PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON

February

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  Book Jacket   THE ALZHEIMER'S PROJECT
Momentum in Science

JOHN HOFFMAN AND SUSAN FROEMKE
WITH SUSAN K. GOLANT

May

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  Book Jacket   THE BEST PRACTICE
How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine

CHARLES KENNEY

March

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  Book Jacket   THE BONFIRE
The Siege and Burning of Atlanta

MARC WORTMAN

June

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  Book Jacket   THE GREAT DECISION
Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court

CLIFF SLOAN AND DAVID MCKEAN

March

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  Book Jacket   THE LONGEVITY REVOLUTION
The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life

ROBERT N. BUTLER, M.D.

March

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  Book Jacket   THE MATCH KING
Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals

FRANK PARTNOY

March

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  Book Jacket   THE MEDIA RELATIONS DEPARTMENT OF HIZBOLLAH WISHES YOU A HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East

NEIL MACFARQUHAR

March

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  Book Jacket   THE SAGES
Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets

CHARLES R. MORRIS

June

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