Beacon Weekly Report

Archive: July 27, 2006

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Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:

Big-Box Swindle, Stacy Mitchell, cloth, November 2006, $25.95, 0-8070-3500-9

• Christian Science Monitor, quoted in July 24th issue
   
• CBS.com, Christian Science Monitor piece

Confessions of the Other Mother, Harlyn Aizley, paperback original, May 2006, $16.00, 0-8070-7963-4

• The Advocate, review in the July 18th issue:
  "Reading through their moving and often funny musings on the new situations these babas have met and conquered, one can't help thinking that once again lesbians are doings are quietly doing what they've always done: blazing trails for everybody else."

The Tent of Abraham, Joan Chittister, Murshid Saadi Shakur Chishti, and Rabbi Arthur Waskow, hardcover, July 2006, $24.95, 0-8070-7728-3

• The Mike Newcomb Show, interviewed aired Monday, July 24th
   
• WPFW (Pacifica, Washington D.C.), What's At Stake, live interview with Arthur Waskow, aired Wednesday, July 26th

Boston Firsts, Lynda Morgenroth, cloth, June 2006, $19.95, 0-8070-7130-7

• The Literati Scene, Boston Channel 23 and other local carriers, interview with Lynda Morgenroth airing Wednesday, July 26th at 7:30 p.m. and Thursday, July 27 th at 10:30 a.m.

Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man, Thomas A. Foster, cloth, September 2006, $28.95, 0-8070-5038-5

• Publishers Weekly, review in the July 24th issue:
  "This is vital reading for anyone seriously interested in American history or gender studies."

Not in Our Classrooms, Eugenie C. Scott and Glenn Branch, paperback, October 2006, $14.00, 0-8070-3278-6

• Teacher Magazine, review forthcoming in Fall issue
   
• Rethinking Schools, review forthcoming in September issue

Making Art Together, Mark Cooper with Lisa Sjostrom, cloth, August 2006, $26.95, 0-8070-6618-4

• Perspective (Journal of YMCA Professionals), review forthcoming for August or September issue
   
• Teacher Magazine, review forthcoming in Fall/Winter issue

Radical Equations, Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb, paperback, February 2002, $16.00, 0-8070-3127-5

• NBC, Tom Brokaw special "Separate and Unequal," Moses, author of forthcoming Beacon book Quality Education as a Civil Right, included in a profile that aired July 23rd

Titles to Watch:

Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, Kevin Jennings, cloth, August 2006, $24.95, 0-8070-7146-3

• People, review in August issue
   
• Gay and Lesbian Review, review in November issue
   
• Lambda Book Report, review in Fall issue
   
• Independent School, review in Fall issue
   
• Horace, review in September issue
   
• Genre, review in September issue
   
• In NewsWeekly (New England), ran Q syndicate review in July 11th issue
   
• San Francisco Bay Time, ran Q syndicate review in July 13th issue
   
• Youth Today, July issue
   
• Boston Magazine, review in September issue
   
• Salon.com, Q & A assigned, date to come
   
• The Bloomsbury Review, review assigned, date to come
   
• Winston-Salem Journal, feature to come
   
• Rethinking Schools, more to come
   
• WOR Radio, Joey Reynolds Show, national interview to air onWednesday, September 6th
   
• Sirius Radio, Michangelo Zignorile Show, live interview to air on Monday, August 14th

The Tent of Abraham, Joan Chittister, Murshid Saadi Shakur Chishti, and Rabbi Arthur Waskow, hardcover, July 2006, $24.95, 0-8070-7728-3

• KPFT, The Peace Hour, interview with Chittister and Waskow to air Friday, August 11th
   
• Air America, State of Belief with Weldon Gaddy, interview with Chittister and Waskow to air on Thursday, October 5th
   
• Tikkun, review in July/August issue
   
• Advertising in Tikkun, The Christian Century, and World Religions Catalog

Epic Journeys of Freedom, Cassandra Pybus, paperback, February, $16.00, 0-8070-5515-8

• The New York Review of Books, reviewed in August 10th issue:
  "Epic Journeys of Freedom is a well-written and engaging narrative history that also happens to be the fruit of prodigious research."