Publishers Weekly, review in the October 29th issue:
“Polikoff wades through legislation and legalese with style and substance,
plus a touch of flair. Impeccably researched, the book offers an evocative
read that takes in the full breadth of the issues affecting marriages and
avoids pedantry while remaining persuasive.”
Book Sense Picks Highlights List, title chosen as 1 of 68 titles, 450,000
flyers will be printed and sent to Book Sense stores in November, and a public
announcement will appear in the November 8th issue of Bookselling This
Week
A Dynamic
God, Nancy Mairs, September 2007, Cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-7732-0
Spirituality and Practice, reviewed and listed on their Best Spiritual
Books of 2007:
“Early in the book, the author states that her intent is to throw wide
the door for the Holy One to enter. She has done that and much more.”
On the Courthouse
Lawn, Sherrilyn A. Ifill, cloth, February 2007, $25.95, 978-0-8070-0987-1
Ifill continues to be the go-to expert on the resurgence of nooses. Here
she is interviewed in the San
Francisco Chronicle, October 29th which was picked up by Common
Dreams
Courting
Equality, Patricia A. Gozemba and Karen Kahn, cloth, May 2007,
$34.95, 978-0-8070-6620-1
CSPAN, authors will appear from the Sarasota Reading Festival
60 on Up,
Lillian B. Rubin, cloth, September 2007, $23.95, 978-0-8070-2928-2
Seniors World Chronicle, Book Garden (blog) write up picked up:
“They
Take Our Jobs!” Aviva Chomsky, paperback original, July
2007, $14.00, 978-0-8070-4156-7
Bangor Daily News, book cited in a column October 30th:
“Chomsky reminds us that in the 19th century white workers in the South
"clung to their status of legal and racial superiority, but the entrenched
racial inequalities undermined the status of poor whites as well." Black
job seekers per se did not hurt poor whites, but rather their disenfranchisement
combined with racism prevented their organization into unions and political
movements. Employers enjoyed a pool of poor and easily exploitable workers
with which to break strikes and undermine all working-class wages.”
Soaring with
Fidel, David Gessner, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8578-3
Orion, piece by author titled “When You See a Skimmer”
in the November/December issue, bio includes book mention
Uncertain
Peril, Claire Hope Cummings, March 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8580-6
“With Uncertain Peril, Claire Hope Cummings offers an indispensable
contribution to the debate over biotechnology. She rightly focuses our attention
on the seed, and what its privatization and manipulation may mean for the
future of food. Without being alarmist, she's written a most alarming book,
one that demands our attention.”
—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“Our current approach to industrial agriculture will someday seem so
bizarre that our descendants won't understand what we were thinking. This
fine volume provides the details of the way we do things now--and the keys
to getting towards a farming future that might actually work.”
—Bill McKibben, author Deep Economy
“As agriculture continues to industrialize and globalize, more and
more of the seeds farmers plant every year are owned by multinational corporations.
And with the corporate focus on effeciency and rational product lines, monocultures
continue to grow. Our society has not thought hard enough about whether this
is the kind of agricultural system we want. Fortunately, along comes Claire
Cummings with this timely and valuable book, to do a lot of important thinking
for us. I hope everyone reads it.”
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker
“Claire Hope Cummings has written the clearest analysis and overview
of the biotech seeds debate I've ever encountered. Writing with passion, she
tells the story of seeds as not only the first link in the food chain but
also as our only hope for food security in the midst of global warming. I
commend Uncertain Peril to anybody who wants to understand who owns, controls,
and is directing the fate of our seeds.”
—Pat Mooney, author of Shattering and Executive Director of the
ETC Group
New Acquisitions
David W. Moore’s MANUFACTURING PUBLIC OPINION, publication date September
2008, Beacon Press
After 13 years as a pollster, expert David W. Moore looks critically at what
media polling has become — manipulative and misrepresentative of public
opinion to sometimes disastrous results, such as the invasion of Iraq. Drawing
on both first-hand experience and the history of modern polling practices,
Moore exposes the inner-workings of pollsters and the cycle of bias that tends
to promote the powerful and suppress dissent. He explains insider information
like “forced-choice format,” and brings to light public opinion
data not previously reported.
David W. Moore is a Senior Fellow at the Carsey Center at the University of
New Hampshire. Prior to serving as Senior Editor at the Gallup Poll from 1993-2006,
he was a political science professor at the University of New Hampshire, where
he founded and directed the UNH Survey Center. His first book, THE SUPER POLLSTERS,
was lauded by the New York Times as “an original and long-needed study
of the professional and political polling organizations and their influential,
profit-minded owners, who sell corn flakes and candidates with equal fervor.”
He has been interviewed on “The Today Show,” C-SPAN, Air America,
and on NPR’s “Fresh Air.” He lives in New Hampshire.
We have acquired a new book by Chatham University professor and Acting Director
of the Rachel Carson Center Nancy Gift on weeds. Following the course of a
single year, from spring through the following winter, the book will offer
Gift's general defense of plants most gardeners fight for reasons that are
not always, Gift will illustrate, reasonable. How do we determine that a plant
is a weed? Gift's love of these plants, from the irreverent hawkweed whose
flower shoots up over nice mowed grass to garlic mustard, a suprisingly useful
ingredient in pesto, is infectious, and her confessions to crimes against
weeds, such as her use of herbicide - gasp! - on the dreaded poison ivy, will
make even the most green person nod guiltily. Ranging from her own yard to
her college campus, to the lawns and flowerbeds of friends and family across
the country, to the local playground and beyond, this book will make everyone
re-think what they consider a weed - and what they do upon labeling a plant
as such. We'll publish in Spring 2009.
Beacon Press is a department of the