Cosimo is looking to acquire the rights to collections of out-of-print books in subject areas such as political science, economics, history, metaphysics, religion, and personal development.

Using print-on-demand technology, Cosimo Books are produced as they are ordered. So there are no upfront printing costs and no storage costs. We have the ability to help authors, estates, and organizations that are rights-owners bring books back into print efficiently and cost-effectively.

If you are the rights-owner of a collection of out-of-print books ranging from 50 to 1,000 titles, please contact Cosimo at info@cosimobooks.com. Let us know the subject area(s) of your collection and we’ll get back to you about how to bring your books to a generation of new readers.

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Coming soon from Chronicle Books!

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is available to preorder at Amazon.com.

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It’s not what we think he should read, but what Washington Monthly thinks. We think he should read lots and lots of classics, of course… and hey! One of the books on Washington Monthly’s list is William James’ The Will to Believe, which is available in a beautiful Cosimo edition (as are lots of other works by James).

Also on the list: George Santayana’s Character and Opinion in the United States, a worthy suggestion. We’ll also recommend Santayana’s classic discourse on aesthetics and the arts, The Sense of Beauty, available in a Cosimo edition, because we’d like President Obama to remember the arts in his economic stimulus packages. (If FDR’s Works Progress Administration could operate major projects in the arts, media, drama, and literacy, then so can Obama’s modern equivalent.)

The Washington Monthly list probably wouldn’t have been complete without a Lincoln book, and indeed, Garry Wills’ Lincoln at Gettysburg is featured. We recommend two other books that offer the firsthand wisdom of that other President from Illinois: Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech and Other Papers and The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms From the Great Emancipator. Both are, of course, available in Cosimo editions.

Cosimo books are available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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Hmmm. We’ve just noticed that PoliPointPress has published a new book on the crashing economy called Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, by economics journalist Dean Baker.

Any resemblance to the title of the Cosimo book Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, by journalist Danny Schechter, is, we’re sure, purely a coincidence.

Read the introduction to Plunder here. (Alert: PDF.)

Plunder is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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Hazel Henderson, coauthor of the Cosimo book The Power of Yin and a longtime advocate for global financial reform, offers an insightful new perspective on the ongoing economic meltdown in her new editorial at Ethical Markets, “Diagnosing the Economic Body Politic”:

[L]et’s flesh out the diagnosis in broader medical terms: The body economic suffers from:

• An enlarged heart and circulatory system. Unlike the earlier medical remedies of blood-letting, today’s economic doctors seem intent on increasing the body’s blood supply, creating hematomas in the banking sector. Injecting liquidity has led to edemas with pools and clotting in various organs and sectors. Bypass surgery may be the answer to downsizing bloated, “too big to fail” Wall Street firms, banks and “insurance” companies while re-directing the transfusions to homeowners, Main Street businesses, students, state budgets, extending unemployment benefits, food stamps, schools, healthcare, human services and charitable foundations.

There’s much more, and it’s fascinating.

The Power of Yin is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.

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The Cosimo book Militarist Millionaire Peacenik: Memoir of a Serial Entrepreneur, by Alan F Kay, has garnered a positive new review at TCM Reviews, by Dr. Tami Brady:

Militarist, Millionaire, Peacenik is a fascinating read… [F]low[s] like a conversation with a friend. I learned a lot about what really happens behind the scenes of great innovations and some of the most significant historical events of the 20th century.

Read the whole review at TCM Reviews.

Militarist, Millionaire, Peacenik offers the remarkable perspective of a man whose extraordinary life and diverse experiences spanned much of the 20th century. From his tenure as an army interpreter in postwar occupied Japan and his years as a mathematician and engineer on Defense Department projects during the early days of the Cold War, Kay garnered lessons in how to conduct military and intelligence operations in a humane, honorable, and scientifically oriented manner. As a “serial entrepreneur” who built his fortune on anticipating the telecommunications revolution of the 1960s and ’70s — indeed, in anticipating the Internet itself — Kay discovered how a focused creativity can create entire new markets. As a worker for world peace who joined nuclear-disarmament missions to the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Kay saw how open-mindedness and a willingness to embrace our fellows across our common ground is necessary for long-term accord.

In this cheerful but frank autobiography, Kay — who is in a unique position to expound on the ideals and philosophies that will get us through the first hundred years of the new millennium — shares the wisdom of his life as a militarist, millionaire, and peacenik.

Militarist Millionaire Peacenik is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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Philip Imbrogno, author of the Cosimo book Celtic Mysteries: Windows to Another Dimension in America’s Northeast will appear on the radio show Coast to Coast with host George Knapp overnight tonight. A scientist and paranormal investigator, Imbrogno will discuss his latest research on UFOs and ETs, and show how this phenomena is related to ghosts and EVPs.

Check the official Coast to Coast site for your local affiliate and showtimes to listen live, or to listen to archived shows. Tonight’s show will be available to stream at the site tomorrow.

About Celtic Mysteries:

Centered in New York’s Hudson River Valley are a series of mysterious stone chambers and carved standing megaliths that have perplexed researchers of the paranormal and archaeologist for decades. What are the strange carvings and language written on the chambers walls? Why are these structures built over areas of negative magnetic anomalies? Scientists and historians tend to write off these structures as colonial root cellars, but authors Philip Imbrogno and Marianne Horrigan, who have researched and studied the chambers for more than ten years, believe they are evidence that the East Coast of North America was explored by people from Europe centuries before Columbus. The ancient people who constructed these chambers may have been Druids who came to the new world in search of a gateway to the world of the gods. The paranormal and UFO phenomena associated with these stone chambers suggest they may indeed be windows to another reality.

Celtic Mysteries is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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As a reader, I’m always excited to see so many movies based on books getting honored with Oscar nominations — if nothing else, if it gets someone to pick up a book who might not otherwise have done so, that’s a good thing.

And there are a lot of book-to-movie translations at this year’s Oscars. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — the most nominated film this year, with nods for Best Picture, Brad Pitt for Best Actor, Taraji P. Henson for Best Supporting Actress, David Fincher for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and more — is based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald [buy at Amazon]. A second Best Picture nominee, The Reader, is based on the novel of the same name by German author Bernhard Schlink [buy at Amazon]. (The film also received nominations for Kate Winslet for Best Actress, for Stephen Daldry for Best Director, and for Best Adapted Screenplay.) A third Best Picture nominee, Slumdog Millionaire, is based on the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup [buy at Amazon]. (That film is also nominated for Best Director, for Danny Boyle, and for Best Adapted Screenplay.)

So three of the five Best Picture nominees are based on prose fiction. A fourth, Frost/Nixon is based on a stage play, which is not — technically speaking — a book. Or course, you can buy the play in book form [buy at Amazon]. The multiply-nominated Doubt is also based on a play [buy at Amazon].

That’s a lot of literature on display at the movies.

But there’s more. Revolutionary Road, which received nominations for Michael Shannon for Best Supporting Actor and for costume design and art direction, is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Yates [buy at Amazon]. The Duchess, also nominated for art direction and costume design, is based on the nonfiction book Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire, by Amanda Foreman [buy at Amazon]. Defiance, nominated for makeup, is based on the nonfiction book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, by Nechama Tec [buy at Amazon].

So many movies based on books, so little time…

(Obligatory plug: Lots of Cosimo Classics have ended up on the big screen, too, including: H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles, Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan of the Apes, Elizabeth Von Arnim’s The Enchanted April, Peter B. Kyne’s The Three Godfathers, and many others.)

Cosimo books are available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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Danny Schechter, author of the Cosimo book Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, is set to direct a new documentary about just-inaugurated President Barack Obama. From Thaindian News:

Johannesburg, Jan 17 (IANS) Amid global media frenzy over the inauguration of Obama Barack, award-winning South African Indian filmmaker Anant Singh said Saturday that he would produce a documentary feature on the first black president of the United States of America. The film, titled “Barack Obama: People’s President”, is written, produced and directed by Danny Schechter, who was involved in “Weapons of Mass Deception” and “Viva Madiba: A Hero For All Seasons”, which told the tale of Nelson Mandela.

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Giving details of the documentary, Singh said: “It will show how his campaign mantra of ‘Yes We Can’ became ‘Yes We Did’, astonishing Americans and exciting world opinion.

“This is the story of how Obama inspired and organised millions of new voters to support him, and how brilliantly the Internet was used as a communications and networking tool as part of the campaign.

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“I spent decades in commercial news,” said director, Danny Schechter, “and I know how superficial coverage can often miss the real story.

“The Obama triumph is much more fascinating than what’s been reported in the media. ‘Barack Obama: People’s President’ tells the real story of Obama’s journey to the White House with previously unseen footage and interviews,” said Schechter, who worked at CNN and ABC NEWS before co-founding Globalvision.

Schechter’s most recent film is the documentary In Debt We Trust, which formed the basis for Plunder.

Read the introduction to Plunder here. (Alert: PDF.)

Plunder is available at Amazon.com and from other online booksellers.

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