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Frankfurt Book Fair 2016
LitAg / Hall 6.3 - Tables 13A, 13B, 14A and 14B

John Brockman
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Katinka Matson
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Russell Weinberger
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Max Brockman
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BALANCE OF POWER
The Race Between State and Society
By Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
[US — Penguin Press, UK — Viking, Germany — Fischer Verlag, Netherlands — Nieuw Amsterdam, Italy — Il Saggiatore, Spain — Duesto, Brazil — Intrinseca, Greece — Livanis, Korea — Sigongsa, Taiwan — Acropolis, Vietnam — Tre Publishing, Audio — Penguin RH; Proposal and sample chapter: 500 pages;
Delivery: December 2018]

Balance of Power is the important, groundbreaking new book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, authors of Why Nations Fail, a widely acclaimed international bestseller that has sold close to half a million copies in English, and hundreds of thousands in translations around the world.

"Balance of Power," Acemoglu and Robinson write, "develops an entirely original thesis about the diversity of the ways in which states function, resolve conflicts, provide public services and more broadly use their powers. It is the logical extension of a research agenda we have been developing together for twenty years, and we have a great deal to offer on this topic. We have demonstrated our ability not only to produce original, thought-provoking social science works but also to reach and explain our ideas to a broad audience."

DARON ACEMOGLU is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, awarded every two years to the best economist in the United States under the age of forty by the American Economic Association, and the Erwin Plein Nemmers prize, awarded every two years for work of lasting significance in economics. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Utrecht, Bosporus University, and the University of Athens.

JAMES A. ROBINSON is an economist and political scientist who is currently one of eight University Professors at the University of Chicago and one of only twenty-one people who have held such a position. He has conducted research in Bolivia, Botswana, Chile, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Mauritius, Mexico, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, and South Africa. He was selected as one of Foreign Policy's "Top Global Thinkers of 2012" and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

THE JANUS POINT
A New Theory of Time's Arrows and The Big Bang
By Julian Barbour
[US — Basic Books, UK — Bodley Head; Proposal; 80,000 — 100,000 words; Delivery: November 2017]

"The Janus Point," writes Julian Barbour, visiting professor at the University of Oxford and author of The End of Time, "proposes a novel and remarkably simple solution to one of the most fundamental problems in physics and cosmology. It concerns the experienced direction of time: Why is the past so different from the present and the future? This difference is encapsulated in the expression the arrow of time. It is problematic because all the known laws of nature have exactly the same form, whatever direction, in which time is supposed to flow. The

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