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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving: How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years. The groundbreaking and inspiring exploration of the unique relationship between dogs and humans, from the bestselling author of Dogs Never Lie About Love. In The Dog Who Couldn’t Stop Loving, Masson considers the far-reaching consequences of the coevolution of dogs and humans, drawing upon recent scientific research. Over the past forty thousand years a collective domestication has occurred that brings us to where we are today—humans have formed intense bonds with dogs, and the adoration is almost always reciprocal. Masson himself has experienced a profound bond with his new dog, Benjy, a failed guide dog for the blind, who possesses an abundance of uninhibited love. Published by HarperCollins Publishers, October 2010 Rights – Territory and Sub rights: HarperCollins. Movie/TV/Performance: Andy Ross Agency
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Altruistic Armadillos, Zenlike Zebras: a Menagerie of 100 Favorite Animals. Jeff’s collection of fascinating facts and colorful anecdotes of his favorite animals from his years of research on the subject. This book was originally published in 2006 by Ballantine Books. Published by Skyhorse Press in February, 2010
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Peter Rudiak-Gould. Surviving Paradise: A Year in the Marshall Islands. is a travel adventure narrative of his year teaching English on a small atoll in the Marshall Islands, one of the most remote places on earth. The subject is timely, because the Marshall Islands are likely to be obliterated by global warming in the near future. (The highest point in the nation is 7 feet above sea level). Peter’s mastery of linguistics is demonstrated by his amusing analysis of how language reflects culture (Marshallese has 170 words associated with coconuts), and his expertise in anthropology comes out in perceptive commentary on such issues as US nuclear testing and Marshallese mythology about ‘America the trickster.’ His prose style is both funny and elegant. It calls to mind the work of Paul Theroux. “[U]tterly unexpected, vivid, [and] blessedly funny.”—Ernest Callenbach, author of bestseller Ecotopia Published by Union Square Press in November, 2009 Rights - Territory and Sub rights: Sterling Publishing. Film/TV/Performance: Andy Ross Agency.
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Michael Parenti. God and His Demons. Michael Parenti brings his critical acumen and rhetorical skills to bear on the dark side of religion, from the many evils committed in the name of holy causes throughout history to the vast hypocrisies of its unworthy advocates past and present. Unlike some recent popular works by stridently outspoken atheists, this is not a blanket condemnation of all believers. Rather Parenti's focus is the heartless exploitation of faithful followers by those in power, as well as sectarian intolerance, the violence against heretics and nonbelievers, and the reactionary political and economic collusion that has often prevailed between the upper echelons of church and state. "God and His Demons is filled with sparkling insights, sly wit, and beautiful writing of a kind we have come to expect from Michael Parenti. A riveting read that I recommend to all." --Julia Scheeres, author of Jesus Land Published by Prometheus Books in March, 2010 Rights - Territory and Sub rights: Prometheus Books. Film/TV/Performance: Andy Ross Agency
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Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman. The Jersey Sting: A True Story of Corrupt Jersey Pols, Money Laundering Rabbis, Black Market Kidneys,and the Informant Who Brought it allDown. The real story behind the biggest corruption bust in New Jersey’s notoriously corrupt history. Among the forty-four people arrested in July 2009 were three mayors, five Orthodox rabbis, two state legislators, and the flamboyant deputy mayor of Jersey City, once a stripper using the stage name “Hope Diamond.” At the center of it all was a dubious character named Solomon Dwek, who perpetrated a $50 million Ponzi scheme before copping a plea and wearing a wire as a secret FBI undercover informant, setting up friends, partners, rabbis, and dozens of politicians. Mr. Dwek played his role like an extra in a mob movie. On surveillance tape, he repeatedly referred to his fraudulent “schnookie deals,” which is Yiddish for, well, schnook. http://www.thejerseysting.com/ Published by St. Martin's Press March, 2011 Rights - Sub rights: St. Martin's Press. Territory (world) and Movie/TV/Performance: Andy Ross Agency
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Mary Jo McConahay.. Maya Roads: One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest. In Maya Roads, McConahay draws upon her three decades of traveling and living in Central America's remote landscapes to create a fascinating chronicle of the people, politics, archaeology, and species of the Central American rainforest, the cradle of Maya civilization. She witnesses archaeological discoveries, the transformation of the Lacandon people, the Zapatista indigenous uprising in Mexico, increased drug trafficking, and assists in the uncovering of a war crime. Over the decades, McConahay has witnessed great changes in the region, and this is a unique tale of a woman's adventure and the adaptation and resolve of a people. "Every once in a while I stumble upon a book that is so beautifully written and infused with so much intelligence and heart that it leaves an indelible mark on me. Mary Jo McConahay's Maya Roads is such a book. In its hungry passion and wide-eyed wonder, it's an extraordinary literary journey and a moving testament to a region and a life." —Don George, National Geographic Traveler Published by Chicago Review Press, August 2011 Rights - Territory and Sub rights: Chicago Review Press. Movie/TV/Performance: Andy Ross Agency http://www.maryjomcconahay.com/
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Dr. Edward Green. Broken Promises : How the AIDS Establishment Has Betrayed the Developing World. Edward Green is director of the Harvard AIDS Prevention Research Project, a member of the Presidential Advisor Council for HIV/AIDS, and one of the world's most prominent and respected AIDS researchers. Dr Green wrote an article in the Washington Post stating that the Pope was right, that condoms are not working to prevent AIDS (at least in Africa).Although his arguments for this position were justified by undisputed scientific information, Dr. Green has been the subject of hysterical attacks by US AIDS groups. His story is how science is being hijacked by ideology and how he has struggled to speak truth to power. It also tells us that there is good news about AIDS prevention coming out of Africa. Published by Polipoint Press in February, 2011 Rights - All rights: Left Coast Books
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson text, Art Wolfe photography. Dogs Make Us Human: A Global Family Album . This book will illuminate with breathtaking photographs from around the world the universal experience of the human-dog relationship. It has been inspired by the spirit of the great book by Edward Steichen, The Family of Man. The book will capture in word and image those universal ties, forged in pre-history, of the bond between humans and dogs. It is, as Masson movingly tells us, the only example of love between two species. "Dogs Make Us Human will be greatly appreciated by dog-lovers everywhere. The text is heartwarming, and the photographs are beautiful. The book is a triumph."- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Published by Bloomsbury Press, October, 2011 Rights - All Rights: Bloomsbury USA
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Carol Odell . Once Upon a Time in the Kitchen: Recipes and Tales from the Children's Classics by Carol Odell. This book was originally from Citrus Press in Australia. It was originally published in 2005. It is a very sweet book with a cute and original concept of offering very simple recipes for foods found in famous children's stories. Example: a recipe for Turkish Delight from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We are representing Citrus Press and are offering international rights for the book (excluding Australia and New Zealand). Published by Sleeping Bear Press in May, 2010 Rights - World excluding Australia and New Zealand: Andy Ross Agency http://www.citruspress.com.au/
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Lynda Watanabe McFerrin. Dead Love is first and foremost a novel about zombies, the projected first in a series. It is a supernatural thriller in the tradition of Mary Shelley, E.A. Poe, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anne Rice. The story follows a cast of nefarious characters, zombies, ghouls, gangsters and normal humans, as they foil and foul one another's plans and power plays in a conspiracy of global proportions. It's creepy! Lynda Watanabe McFerrin is an award winning novelist, journalist, essayist and teacher.Dead Love is a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel from the Horror Writers Association. "Delightfully disgusting, Dead Love is the new horror genre at its best. Fans of Twilight, World War Z, and Neil Gaiman will devour this fine novel whole."—ForeWord Magazine Published by Stone Bridge Press in September 2010 Rights - Territory and Sub rights: Stone Bridge Press. Film/TV/Performance: Andy Ross Agency
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Dr. Jonathan Boyarin. Jonathan Boyarin is one of the world’s most distinguished scholars of Jewish culture. He specializes in Yiddish subjects. Dr. Boyarin has been trained as both a lawyer and an anthropologist. His new project, Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul , is a narrative of a summer he spent as part of a minyan for and orthodox synagogue in New York. He brings his humor, his religious understanding, and his anthropological insights into the culture and religion of this experience. Published by Fordham University Press in October 2011 Rights - Territory and Sub rights: Fordham University Press. Film/TV/Performance: Andy Ross Agency http://religion.unc.edu/people/facultydocs/bio-boyarin.shtml
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Todd Farley. Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry. This is a personal narrative of Todd’s experiences working in Standardized educational testing. He began as a part-time grader and gradually moved up the ladder. He worked with the lowest level test graders up to the highest executives of the great testing companies. His experiences are a stinging indictment of the pseudo-science of educational testing. The books is also fall-out-of-the-bed funny. Published by Polipoint Press in October, 2009 Rights: Territory and Sub rights: Berrett-Kohler Books. Film/TV/Performance: Andy Ross Agency http://makingthegradesbook.com/
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Paul Krassner. Who's to Say What's Obscene. Paul Krassner was founder and editor of The Realist, one of the most popular magazines of the Sixties Counter Culture. Indeed, Krassner is one of the great iconic figures of this period. Unlike many people associated with the Sixties, Paul continues his vision and his unique satirical style. Which is alternately hilarious, biting, vulgar, and always intelligent. The project we are working on includes recent articles and essays by Paul on comedy, drugs, freedom of speech, and other reflections on culture. “Krassner is absolutely compelling. He has lived on the edge so long he gets his mail delivered there.”—San Francisco Chronicle Published by City Lights Publications in July, 2009 Rights: All rights: City Lights Books
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Daniel Boyarin. The Jewish Gospels. Guiding us through a rich tapestry of new discoveries and ancient scriptures, The Jewish Gospels makes the powerful case that our conventional understandings of Jesus and of the origins of Christianity are wrong. In Boyarin’s scrupulously illustrated account, the coming of the Messiah was fully imagined in the ancient Jewish texts. Jesus, moreover, was embraced by many Jews as this person, and his core teachings were not at all a break from Jewish beliefs and teachings. Jesus and his followers, Boyarin shows, were simply Jewish. What came to be known as Christianity came much later, as religious and political leaders sought to impose a new religious orthodoxy that was not present at the time of Jesus’s life. Published by New Press in March 2012 |
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Daniel Ellsberg. The American Doomsday Machine. Before the Pentagon Papers, before Watergate, before his involvement as an advisor in Viet Nam, Daniel Ellsberg worked in the U. S. national security system at the highest levels on command and control of nuclear weapons, plans for general nuclear war, and preventing nuclear Armageddon between the superpowers. The American Doomsday Machine is a memoir of that time. It will tell the shocking story of the secret plan developed by the U.S. government and approved by the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff that would launch a nuclear strike against Russia and China under a range of circumstances and that the government knew would kill 600,000,000 people. This is a never before told story of enormous historical importance that will significantly alter our understanding of the Cold War. To be published by Bloomsbury Press. date not set Rights - Territory and Sub rights: Bloomsbury Press. Film/TV/Performance: Andy Ross Agency
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Peter Richardson. No Simple Highway: The Life and Times of The Grateful Dead. This book is more of a cultural history than a fan's book. No Simple Highway vividly recounts the Dead’s colorful history and probes the riddle of the Dead’s unique and durable appeal. Arguing that the band successfully tapped three powerful utopian ideals—for ecstasy, mobility, and community—it also shows that the Dead’s lived experience with these ideals and their consequences was complex and paradoxical. To be published by Saint Martin's Press. date not set Rights - Territory (World) and Film/TV/Permance: Andy Ross Agency. Sub rights: St. Martin's Press
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David Sedlak. Drinking Water: The Past, Present and Future of Our Essential Ingredient . This book examines the most common and essential, but frequently taken for granted, element in our lives. It looks at its history beginning with ancient Rome, its chemistry, the story of how it is treated and delivered to our homes, and the challenges and changes that will be required to accommodate a growing world population. The author is Professor of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley specializing in environmental chemistry and water quality engineering. To be published by Yale University Press. date not set Rights - All rights: Yale University Press http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~sedlak/links-media.shtml
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Apex Predator: Orcas, Humans, and the Origins of Good and Evil. This book is both a summation of Jeff's 30 years of thought about the emotional life of animals and an audacious attempt to integrate those insights into a new interpretation of the origins of evil in human history. The book begins with a comparison of the two supreme creatures at the top of the food chain: Orcas and humans. He points out several incontrovertible facts: 1)There are no documented attacks of humans by Orcas living in the wild. 2) The number of Orcas killed by other Orcas throughout history is zero. 3) The number of Orcas killed by humans is not known, but is many thousands at least. 4) The number of humans killed by other humans in the 20th century alone is somewhere around 180 million. From these facts, the author asks a deceptively simple but immensely profound question: "What happened to us? " To be published By Bloomsbury Press in 2013 Rights - Territory and Sub rights: Bloomsbury USA. Film/TV/Performance: Andy Ross Agency
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