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MASTERY
GREENE, ROBERT
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
What did Charles Darwin, middling schoolboy and underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest
and greatest naturalists the world has known? What were the similar choices made by Mozart and by Caesar
Rodriguez, the U.S. Air Force’s last ace fighter pilot? In Mastery, Robert Greene’s fifth book, he mines the
biographies of great historical figures for clues about gaining control over our own lives and destinies. Picking up
where The 48 Laws of Power left off, Greene culls years of research and original interviews to blend historical
anecdote and psychological insight, distilling the universal ingredients of the world’s masters. Temple Grandin,
Martha Graham, Henry Ford, Buckminster Fuller—all have lessons to offer about how the love for doing one
thing exceptionally well can lead to mastery. Yet the secret, Greene maintains, is already in our heads.
Debunking long-held cultural myths, he demonstrates just how we, as humans, are hardwired for achievement
and supremacy. Fans of Greene’s earlier work and Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers will eagerly devour this canny
and erudite explanation of just what it takes to be great.
BUSINESS 1ST PRINTING 150,000
VIKING 320 PAGES
9780670024964
$31.00 HC
NOVEMBER 2012
MATCH ANNUAL 2013
MATCH
From the UK's most popular football magazine comes the essential annual for fans of the beautiful game. The
2013 Annual is packed full of Match's best-loved features including Matchman, the magazine's resident cartoon
character, and all the usual quizzes, games and posters of top players and teams.
SPORTS - SOCCER
BOXTREE LTD. 96 PAGES
9780752227474
$15.99 TP Original
OCTOBER 2012
THE MATTIAS ADOLFSSON SKETCHBOOK
ADOLFSSON, MATTIAS
For the first time in North America, brilliant Swedish illustrator Mattias Adolfsson's incredibly lush sketchbook
illustrations are collected in a facsimile Moleskine edition. Adolfsson, in between assignments for the New York
Times, videogame design, children's books and other major publications, spends his time filling untold
Moleskines with intricate and beautifully detailed drawings of whatever strikes his fancy. From hot-rod
spaceships to rocket-fueled fountain pens, from baroque robots to Richard-Scary-gone-berserk cityscapes,
Adolfsson uses his imagination to create everything mad scientists world-over haven't even begun to dream up.
ART 1ST PRINTING 7500
BOOM! STUDIOS 128 PAGES
9781608862771
$18.99 TP Original
OCTOBER 2012
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