We will publishes 2 tiles for the Judaic market this spring: AROUND JEWISH ART + Secrets of the Old Testament.
I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce a dynamic new publishing venture, Carnot USA Books. Its original trade paperbacks and hard covers target the American perspective on global concerns in such areas as current events, science, and the arts. Carnot USA Books opened its New York office in 2002 and immediately assumed all responsibility for editing, designing, and producing books released into the U.S. market. It is currently publishing fifteen new titles a year. >From its parent company, Editions Carnot, the Carnot USA Books list draws on groundbreaking works in the following categories: * Current Affairs - These are books that look at the facts behind the news, providing in-depth and often controversial analyses of both articles and photographs that have previously appeared in print. * Paranormal and Other Mysteries of Mankind - Published under the series title, Orbis Enigma, the mission of these books is to enhance human knowledge in fields that have not been fully explored or understood. * Religion - New interpretations of the Old and New Testaments by journalists and scholars * Reference - Books in this category are encyclopedias and biographies, generally in the arts. * Health and Fitness - Topics featured in this part of the Carnot list cover the spiritual, nutritional, and medical aspects of wellness. * Adult and Young Adult Fiction - Carnot's fiction list is both well-respected and far-reaching, with award-winning mysteries, historical fiction and romance. In 2003, Carnot USA Books published ten titles including such timely books as African Legacy: Solutions for a Continent in Crisis and Moon Landings: Did NASA Lie? This spring, the company is featuring major promotions on two titles in the arts: * ART FRAUD: Memoirs of a Master Forger, an insider's look at the glamorous word of art forgery which is sure to capture the popular imagination; and * AROUND JEWISH ART: A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, and Photographers, a classic reference destined to occupy an important place in libraries as well as in galleries and museum stores. Carnot USA Books will also release an award-winning mystery entitled The Devil Lives in Glasgow this spring along with two new titles in the Orbis Enigma series - Atlantis Rediscovered and Secrets of the Old Testament: Book One, Who Was Moses? The latter is a sequel to an international bestseller. AROUND JEWISH ART: A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, and Photographers, which will be of special interest to your patrons. Featuring 6,400 artists, is the first reference to attempt to define Jewish Art in broad-based terms. Edited by Adrian M. Darmon, the book is intended not so much to illustrate how the arts have shaped Jewish culture but more to communicate the extent to which Jewish culture has contributed to the arts. It is remarkable both for its scope and its scholarship. Indeed, Around Jewish Art is dedicated to those artists who perished in the Holocaust and includes more than 400 artists who were murdered in ghettos or Nazi concentration camps. Each of these artists is clearly identified in the section that defines his or her type of art, and then all these entries are collected separately in the fifth and final section. Please let me know if I can provide any additional information. Thanks and look forward to hearing from you. Asad A. Lalljee Director North America Carnot USA Books, Inc. 22 West 19th Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011. Tel: (212) 255-6505 Fax: (212) 807-8831 Cell: (917) 478-1840 ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
