Latest news

• Lithuania and a galaxy far far away...

  We're pleased to annouce: a) Optimist's Tour is being translated into Lithuanian b) The movie of the book now has a visual team behind it responsible (in part) for movies including Star Wars, Bladerunner, The Hunger Games, Aliens and Avatar. We'r...

• Hungarian edition

  The lovely people at HVG have bought Hungarian language rights to the book.... Nagyszeru!

• Audio book released

  ....and you can find it at Audible.co.uk. http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B008UCAOV0&qid=1345107226&sr=1-1

• More editions...

  Good news... Dutch, Estonian and Hungarian editions are now in the offing - as is an Audio version (read by Mark)....

• Everything's kicking off...

  Here at optimist towers we're being inudated with requests from investors, businesses, legislators and a whole host of others to help them lean into the future. This means Mark's next book is still taking longer than we hoped to emerge. The League of P...

• Editions Everywhere

  So, there's been a flurry of new editions of the book. The paperback is out in the US today, Turkish and Polish editions are now on the shelves (to supplement the Spanish) and the German edition comes out in April. Oh, and a Dutch edition has just been...

• Next meeting of London League of Pragmatic Optimists (LOPO)

  2012 is the year of LOPO.... For details of the London meeting on Jan 26th visit http://lopolondonjan2012.eventbrite.com/. International and regional chapters coming this year....

• Last talk of the year....

  Mark's last talk of the year will be addressing Science Communications students at University College London. It's been a diverse twelve months with talks to everyone from schoolchildren to CEOs. In the New Year Mark will start writing his next book - ...

• Un Viaje Optimista por el Futuro - Book launches in Spanish

  We're very happy to announce that the book is now available in Spanish - via the truly fantastic publisher Galaxia Gutenberg - who have created a Spanish web site for the book: http://www.galaxiagutenberg.com/. Mark is currently doing a host of Spanish...

• The League of Pragmatic Optimists is coming

  LOPO came about after Mark became constantly inundated with the question “What can I do?” from people reading his book, or attending talks. He realised there was a huge un-tapped army of critical thinking optimists out there, however a lot them ...

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