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...Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen (Simon & Schuster/Vintage) The author of the prescient 2012 bestseller Spillover, about animal diseases jumping into humans, delivers...
...“This ban is consistent and correct,” said Josef Schuster, the president of the central council of German Jews. “Samidoun has been behind many antisemitic protests Germany-wide....
...The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann Simon & Schuster £20, 352 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Penguin Press $32, 416 pages The Canceling of the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott Allen Lane £25/Simon & Schuster...
...Murder in My Dreams by David Oakley (published via Amazon)The second crime novel in the assistant companies editor’s “The Napoleon Mysteries” series....
...Last year regulators blocked a proposed merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster on competition grounds. Read more on the latest attempt to sell Simon & Schuster. 4....
...Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher (Simon & Schuster)The tech industry said it wanted to change the world....
...Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans (Torva/Henry Holt) Tony Hsieh turned Zappos, the Amazon-owned footwear etailer, into a case...
...Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama (Simon & Schuster/Ecco) During Covid-19 lockdowns, the British historian and FT contributing editor was inspired to examine...
...Job moves Simon & Schuster announced a new board of directors following its takeover by KKR. Richard Sarnoff, chair of media at KKR, will serve as the book publisher’s new chair....
...Paramount, which is controlled by Shari Redstone, this year agreed to sell the Simon & Schuster book publisher to KKR....
...The Man Who Tasted Words: Inside the Strange and Startling World of Our Sensesby Guy Leschziner, Simon & Schuster £16.99 Our interpretation of the world around us — in other words, our version of reality...
...WeWork director David Tolley will take over as interim CEO. Deutsche Bank has hired Martin Blanquart as managing director to lead Europe, Middle East and Africa technology....
...Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technologyby Chris Miller, Simon & Schuster £20 Semiconductors are to our computer age what railroads were to the industrial age....
...‘The Twilight World’ by Werner Herzog and ‘Aurora’ by David Koepp are available now....
...The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America — and How to Undo His Legacyby David Gelles, Simon & Schuster £19.99/$28 An ambitious, hard-hitting...
...He was unsparing in these assaults, finally concluding that Herbert Asquith was not up to being a wartime leader and playing a leading role in conspiring for his replacement with David Lloyd George....
...Markus Dohle, the longstanding chief executive of Penguin Random House, has quit the world’s biggest book publisher after failing to secure antitrust approval to buy US rival Simon & Schuster....
...And he’s written a book, Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot, which will be published this September by Simon and Schuster....
...Morgan Stanley has promoted senior M&A banker David Kitterick to deputy head of investment banking in Europe....
...The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America — and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles, Simon & Schuster, £19.99/$28, 272 pages Andrew Hill...
...Jefferies Financial Group has hired veteran investment banker David Biller from Citigroup to boost its presence in Asia, according to Bloomberg....
...Winter Countsby David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Simon & Schuster £14.99/HarperCollins $16.99 In South Dakota’s Rosebud Native American Reservation, Virgil Wounded Horse is a sort of “equaliser” for his people...
...Courtesy David Zwirner “Roy DeCarava: Selected Works” is at David Zwirner gallery, London, until February 19....
...Notable business books include The Founders by Jimmy Soni (Simon & Schuster, February)....
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