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CHURCHILL’S BOMB
FARMELO, GRAHAM
Perhaps no scientific breakthrough has shaped the course of human history as much as the harnessing
of the atom. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out entirely differently had this powerful
technology stayed under the control of Great Britain, whose scientists spearheaded the Allies’ nuclear
arms program at the outset of World War II. As award-winning science historian Graham Farmelo reveals
in Churchill’s Bomb, Britain’s supposedly visionary leader remained unconvinced of the potentially earthshattering
implications of his physicists’ research. Churchill ultimately shared Britain’s nuclear secrets
with—and ceded its initiative to—America, whose successful development and deployment of an atomic
bomb placed the United States in a position of supreme power at the dawn of the Nuclear Age. A
groundbreaking investigation of the twentieth century’s most important scientific discovery, Churchill’s
Bomb reveals the secret history of the weapon that transformed modern geopolitics.
HISTORY
BASIC BOOKS
9780465021956
$34.50 HC
NOVEMBER 2013
464 PAGES
CLASSICO E MODERNO
WHITE, MICHAEL
In Classico e Moderno, Michael White brings his passion for authentic Italian cuisine to the home kitchen,
with recipes—nearly 250—that cover both the traditional and contemporary dishes of the region.
COOKING
RANDOM HOUSE
9780345530523
$25.00 HC
NOVEMBER 2013
448 PAGES
THE CLOWN CAR IN THE COLD MINE
BILTON, NICK
Twitter seems like a perfect start-up success story. In barely six years, a small group of young, ambitious
programmers in Silicon Valley built an $11.5 billion business out of the ashes of a failed podcasting
company. Today Twitter boasts more than 200 million active users and has affected business, politics,
media, and other fields in innumerable ways. Now Nick Bilton of the New York Times takes readers
behind the scenes with a narrative that shows what happened inside Twitter as it grew at exponential
speeds. This is a tale of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles as the four founders—Biz
Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Noah Glass—went from everyday engineers to wealthy
celebrities, featured on magazine covers, Oprah, The Daily Show, and Time’s list of the world’s most
influential people. Bilton’s exclusive access and exhaustive investigative reporting—drawing on hundreds
of sources, documents, and internal e-mails—have enabled him to write an intimate portrait of fame,
influence, and power. He also captures the zeitgeist and global influence of Twitter, which has been used
to help overthrow governments in the Middle East and disrupt the very fabric of the way people
communicate.
BUSINESS 1ST PRINTING 75,000
PORTFOLIO
288 PAGES
9781591846017
$31.00 HC
NOVEMBER 2013