Collections
The first series consists of short biographies (25,000 words, 120 pages) of relevant professionals. The goal of this series is to attract college students and other readers interested in learning about different professions from the perspective of successful people in those fields. This series books are also available in Spanish
We think books are great learning gears and reading is at the center of self-educational projects. We live at a time where “knowledge is power”. The famous business philosopher Peter Drucker envisioned the rise of the knowledge workers – a phrase he coined in The Age of Discontinuity (1969).
To read is a necessity in our changing societies. It is also an extraordinary pleasure.
Italo Calvino thinks that a “classic is a book which has never exhausted all it has to say to its readers” (Why Read the Classics?). Following this idea, in this series we intend to bring back those classics that continue to be valuable and relevant in our modern world.
We have been fortunate to secure the rights of relevant works that were not available for a new generation of readers or that the works were not known in the USA and other markets. That is the case of the English edition of the English rights to reprint The Letters of Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse Also as an exception, In this collection we are also bringing out classic books that are in the public domain, including in each new edition an introduction by an important writer to provide current information and background. This is the case of the brief note by Cristina Pacheco to Santa the popular book of Federico Gamboa (the book included illustrations by Mexican hyper-realistic painter Victor Rodriguez
Books in Translation.
This collection features original English- and Spanish-language books that have a universal appeal and whose content transcends a specific culture.
We are proud to present in SpanishVirtuoso Teams by Andy Boynton and Bill Fisher, published originally in English by Pearson Education; and Yale University Child Study Center Lecturer Virginia M. Shiller’s Recompensas Para Niños originally published in English by the American Psychological Association. Also in Spanish, we released New York Times correspondent Anthony DePalma’s book El Hombre que Inventó a Fidel: Castro, Cuba and Herbert Matthews of the New York Times, one of the best 2006 political books according to the Financial Times (published in English by Public Affaires) and premier acting teacher and coach Ivana Chubbuck’s manual, El Poder de la Actuación Los Angeles Times Best Seller (published in English in 2006 by Gotham Books). a Los Angeles Times Best Seller (published in English in 2006 by Gotham Books). We produced an English translation of Pablo Helguera Manual of Contemporary Art Style a book that the author has presented at the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington DC, and in other museums and galleries in New York, Chicago, Berlin, etc. The book has been reviewed in Flash Art, Art Review and many other relevant publications (originally published in Spanish by Tumbona Ediciones). We are also very pleased to introduce to the English speaking reader Winterhart, a mythological story that relates two journeys simultaneously. (originally published in Spanish in 2005 by Editorial Urano).
Illustrated Books
The importance of art as a powerful communication medium is recognized in this collection. JPB has been associated with two great artists and successfully published two illustrated books: Instructoart, Lesson 1 and Victor Rodriguez, 10 years of painting. The first book was published early this year and got very positive reviews, is widely distributed and has sold more than 17,000 copies (2nd print). The Victor Rodriguez book was released at the end of 2004 and is being distributed in museum bookstores and galleries around the world. In late Spring 2005, we released a new book by Matthew Vescovo,The Life and Death of Bling Bling, from the Instructoart series. In this collection we are proud to present Jeane Wolff, Progressions. Paintings 1999-2007 by an artist that had many solo exhibitions in galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Mexico City.
Contemporary Books
This imprint are new, contemporary fiction and nonfiction titles that encompass a wide range of genres that are not covered by existing JPB collections. The New Books series also serves as a launching pad for newly published yet very talented and very promising authors. The first book in this series is Gracias por la Muerte,a moving novel exploring the life of a lawyer who has committed suicide and of her son, who seeks to understand her and the life she lived (available in English with the title Just Toss the Ashes).
The author of Gracias por la Muerte, Marta Merajver Kurlat, was born in Argentina and studied mythology, language, psychology, and psychoanalysis. Her second book, Los Gloriosos 60’s y Despues, was released in July 2007. She is currently working on her third book, El Tramo Final, which will be released in 2009.
Pablo Helguera has several titles with us (press the link), including the translation of his famous Manual of Contemporary Art Style). His personal diary, The Boy Inside the Letter (available in Spanish). This autobiographical work, written in the style of a Künstlerroman—a novel of artistic education—provides a rare glimpse into the mind of a 21st-century artist during his art school years. The novel departs from the author’s actual personal diaries written when he was 17 to 21 years old. From the same authorThe Witches of Tepoztlan (and Other Unpublished Operas) describes the cases of four different and rather obscure operas written by equally obscure composers whose existence, whether fictitious or real, is never confirmed by Pablo Helguera. For a complete list of Helguera’s books open the link
Also in this series we present two books by Vito Tanzi, who was a senior staff member of the International Monetary Fund and Undersecretary for Economy and Finance in the Italian Government. The two books we published are not written only for economists. His responsibilities required him to travel often to many countries. These visits were linked to various activities: discussing financial assistance programs by the Fund; providing technical assistance or technical advice to the countries’ governments; discussing policies that governments were considering; participating in conferences; or simply giving invited lectures. During these visits he spent untold hours aboard planes and in airports and, cumulatively, months or even years in hotels. He became a truly global economist and a kind of jet-age Marco Polo. My great curiosity about new places, including discomforting ones, made this work always fascinating even though, occasionally, it described situations far from relaxing, pleasant, or safe.
Tanzi’s first book, Argentina: How One of the Richest Countries in the World Lost its Wealth: an Economic Chronicle shows how Argentina began the 20th Century as one of the richest ten country in the world. For a while its economic position in the world was comparable to that of, say, Germany today. It had a per capita income much higher than that of Japan and Italy and comparable to that of France. However, it ended the century on the eve of the largest default in history. The book was updated four years ago a have a new title and new chapters with the title, Argentina, from Peron to Macri. An Economic Chronicle. We also published, by the same author, Peoples, Places and Policies: China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. This second volume of Tanzi’s series of cultural, human and economic views covers several Asian countries that the author visited over a period of many years, particularly China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia. The book was updated four years ago a have a new title and new chapters.
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