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...That chimes with what Veritas Capital paid to acquire Houghton Mifflin Harcourt last month. Andy Bird, the chief executive since late 2020, has made some headway....
...In February Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which provides educational materials for school-age children, was acquired by Veritas Capital in a $2.8bn deal....
...The Secret to Superhuman Strengthby Alison Bechdel, Jonathan Cape £16.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $24 An astonishing graphic novel/memoir whose precise drawings capture, as the FT reviewer noted, Bechdel...
...Rememberingsby Sinéad O’Connor, Sandycove £20/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $28 O’Connor admits to being an unreliable narrator of her life story....
...Under the Wave at Waimea, by Paul Theroux, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$28, 416 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Becoming Duchess Goldblatt (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24) is a book that exists because of Twitter; indeed its author — either the Duchess herself, or Anonymous, depending on your perspective — exists...
...Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric, by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP $28, 368 pages Andrew Hill is the FT’s management editor Letter in response to...
...The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef, Father, Eater and Lifelong Outsider, by Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying, Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP£23.99/$30 There have been some good books...
...On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip, by Paul Theroux, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£20/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$30 Now 78, the great traveller might be forgiven for choosing a relaxing cruise or a...
...Ghost Work (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$27) by Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri provides one of the first in-depth on the ground studies of this world....
...Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, by Nathan Lents, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£16.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$27 By many measures Homo sapiens is the most...
...Q, which specialises in distressed debt as well as activism, has previously targeted companies including Jones Energy, Citadel Broadcasting, Quorum Health and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, pushing for moves...
..., by Graham Allison, Scribe, RRP£18.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$28 Allison, a Harvard professor, shows that — more often than not — a rising power has clashed with the established hegemon, and asks...
...A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution, by Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg, Bodley Head, RRP£20/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$28 Doudna is a key figure in the development of “gene...
...The Unbanking of America, by Lisa Servon, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt RRP$27 Lisa Servon, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, worked undercover in a cheque-cashing store in New York and a payday...
...Chronicles of a Liquid Society , by Umberto Eco, translated by Richard Dixon, Harvill Secker, RRP£18.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$24, 320 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe...
...The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, by Mihir Desai, Profile Books, RRP£12.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$27 Harvard economist Desai’s conceit in this highly readable...
...The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, by Mihir Desai, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$27/Profile, RRP£12.99 Desai sets off on an entertaining quest to humanise high...
...Sympathy , by Olivia Sudjic, One, RRP£14.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $25, 416 pages...
...Emma Jacobs is an FT features writer All Grown Up, by Jami Attenberg, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£12.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$25, 207 pages...
...Judas, by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas de Lange, Chatto & Windus, RRP£18.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$25 The first novel in more than a decade by the Israeli author re-examines the story of the...
...Pearson lost 4.2 per cent to 726p after the resignation of Linda Zecher, chief executive of US schoolbook publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, deepened concerns about sales during the key Autumn enrolment...
...‘Tools of Titans: the tactics, routines, and habits of billionaires, icons, and world-class performers’, Tim Ferriss; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $28.00 Vermilion; £15...
...Of All That Ends, by Günter Grass, translated by Breon Mitchell, Harvill Secker, RRP£12.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$28, 176 pages Photograph: Getty Images...
...To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History, by Lawrence Levy, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27.00...
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