“Migrations and Movement: Our Unsettled World” by David Gessner
“Slamming the door on Defendants”
Starting on November 8th Beacon Broadside will feature a series of posts
on Veterans Day from Beacon authors about war, peace and the experiences of
veterans. It will begin with an extraordinary piece by Gulf War Vet Marcus
Ericksen on a sculpture he created to honor the first dead Iraqi soldier he
saw, on the “Highway of Death.”
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise
The Missing
Class, Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen, September 2007, Cloth,
$24.95, 978-0-8070-4139-0
Brian Lehrer Show/WNYC Radio, Thursday, November 15th, 11: 06-11:40
a.m., live with call-ins
Uncertain
Peril, Claire Hope Cummings, March 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8580-6
“Uncertain Peril gives us passionate and persuasive reasons
why we need more public discussion of the risks and benefits of agricultural
biotechnology. Cummings never loses sight of the key question: Who decides
what foods we eat?” —Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics and
What to Eat
“Uncertain Peril is a wake up call about the threat to our seeds,
and to the freedom of the seed.” —Vandana Shiva, author of Stolen
Harvest and editor of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed
Sundays in America is unlike any other book you’ll ever read.
While born and raised Roman Catholic, Suzanne Shea invites us to accompany
her on a yearlong pilgrimage of weekly services in non-Catholic Christian
churches. As I did so, I found myself taken on an extraordinarily delightful
and insightful spiritual journey that helped me see the face of religion in
America more clearly; love the diverse faces of believers and non-believers
more dearly; and follow the Holy Spirit she found everywhere more nearly.
Like all pilgrimages, this will one will enlighten you and change your life
too; and, I might add, you will not find a pilgrim guide more fun to be with
than Suzanne Shea.” —Karol Jackowski, author of Forever and Ever,
Amen: Becoming a Nun in the 1960s
Acts of Faith,
Eboo Patel, cloth, July 2007, $22.95, 978-0-8070-7726-9
Good Morning America taping on November 14th; we’re told that
they will do two segments on Eboo. Here’s the background: she’s
rented a large loft (so it doesn’t look like a studio set) where she’ll
speak to the young people—3 from Chicago, two from Boston, one from New
York—and Eboo about being from different religions and working together
with a common goal and with Eboo about his background, founding the organization
etc. They’ll show the book during the intro. Air date for first segment
is set for Thanksgiving. Sercond segment air date tk.
Dark Tide,
Stephen Puleo, paperback, $15.00, 978-0-8070-5021-7
The town of Holliston, MA has chose Dark Tide as its "town-wide
reading book". This is for the "One Holliston, One Book" program.
In all, this is the fifth Mass. community to select DT for a town-wide
selection.
New Acquisition
We are excited to announce the acquisition of a memoir by Patricia Harman,
agented by Barbara Braun. Harman is a nurse midwife who runs a private practice
with her physician husband in Riverton, West Virginia. They had to give up
delivering babies because of the spike in the cost of malpractice insurance,
and at the opening of the story they provide services such as gynecological
exams and prenatal care. The book is divided into five parts covering the
span of just over one year, and interweaves Harman’s patients’ stories
with her own story in a way that makes for a beautiful and balanced narrative.
It is a compelling and at moments heart wrenching read. Harman has been a
nurse midwife on the faculty of Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve
University, and West Virginia University, has published in scholarly periodicals
such as The Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, and is a lecturer
and a presenter on regional radio and television shows. Beacon plans to publish
her memoir in Spring 2009.
Just Released
On Private
Property, Eric T. Freyfogle, November 2007, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4416-2
Advanced Praise:
“Freyfogle's new book, which probably should have been titled Roll
Over, John Locke, is just what the public debate over property rights
needs. Straight talk, and an invitation to open a conversation about the real
issues.” —Joseph L. Sax, author of Playing Darts with a Rembrandt:
Public and Private Rights in Cultural Treasures
“A fresh perspective and penetrating legal and historical analysis
of an issue that will continue to be in the forefront of land policy in the
21st century.” —Anthony Flint, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,
author of This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America
“In a work that eschews easy slogans, Eric Freyfogle proves the truth
about American property rights—that original intent, early court opinions,
and the realities of modern society all mandate that ownership brings with
it weighty but reasonable responsibilities to the larger community. This beautifully-articulated
book, at once bold and thoughtful, is bound to become a classic in American
constitutional and property law.” —Charles Wilkinson, Distinguished
University Professor and Moses Lasky Professor of Law at the University of
Colorado and author of Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the
Future of the West
Print:
Planning and Environmental Law, chapter 1 excerpted in the October
issue
Law and History Review, review forthcoming
Advertising:
Journal of the American Planning Association, 1/4 page in the Winter
2007
Conservation Magazine, 1/3 page in the Jan-March 2008 issue
Planning and Environmental Law, 1/2 page in the November 2007 issue
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