Read This! Instilling a Love of Reading in Kids by Chris Mercogliano
Give a Gift To Our Economy: Shop Locally Owned This Holiday Season by Stacy
Mitchell
Jewish Book Month recommended reading: Adrienne Rich’s Your Native
Land, Your Life by Stephen Burt
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:
The Sundance Film Festival will screen the documentary, Traces of the
Trade: A Story from the Deep North, a companion to DeWolf’s book
. It is one of 16 documentaries in the festival. Article in New York Times
11.29.07: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/movies/29sund.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Acts
of Faith, Eboo Patel, cloth, July 2007, $22.95, 978-0-8070-7726-9
Good Morning America/ABC TV; two segments featuring Eboo Patel and some
of the young people who work with the Interfaith Youth Core; air date to come
PBS; rebroadcast of Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly profile of Eboo
Patel this weekend (in markets that are not preempting the show for year-end
fundraising).
The Missing
Class , Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen, cloth, $24.95, September
2007, 978-0-8070-4139-0
America Magazine, a write-up, along with jacket art is in the November
26th issue
An interview with Delgado, conducted by the blog Intrepid Liberal Journal,
is also being noticed in the blogosphere by Daily Kos, MyDD, Out of Iraq Bloggers
Caucus, LeftWord, and Independent Bloggers Alliance, among others
Chronicle of Philanthropy; Winne will write a piece related to Closing
the Food Gap for the January issue
Edible Magazine; excerpt will appear in Winter issues of 40 regional
Edible publications; total circulation 1.25 million
Santa Fean Magazine; profile forthcoming in the December/January
issue
Eating Well Magazine; coverage forthcoming in the January/February
issue
Big-Box Swindle,
Stacy Mitchell, paperback, October 2007, $15.00, 978-0-8070-3501-6
Stacy Mitchell’s Beacon blog, Give a Gift To Our Economy: Shop Locally
Owned This Holiday Season, was republished by the American Booksellers Association
(Note from Tom: Books confiscated by Israeli Customs Office have now been
released.)
Uncertain
Peril, Claire Hope Cummings, March 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8580-6
"Claire Cummings now takes her place with Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry,
Vandana Shiva and other great philosophers and critics deeply concerned over
the grim new directions of industrial, hi-tech agriculture, as it undermines
ages-old traditional, highly successful relationships between the cultures,
the earth and the seeds, that are at the core of all plant life and human existence.
Uncertain Peril should be required reading for anyone interested in sustainable
futures."
—Jerry Mander, director, International Forum on Globalization and author
In the Absence of the Sacred
“What happens when the center cannot hold? With great empathy and infectious
alarm, Nan Mooney charts the travails of America's middle class in this important
book.”
—Anya Kamenetz, author of Generation Debt
“A book for the distressed and confused because their life plan has gone
to pieces. Mooney illuminates what has happened to them—and why.”
—Nicholas Von Hoffman, columnist for NY Observer and regular contributor
to The Nation
"If you’re wondering why, in our age of plenty, the financial treadmill
keeps moving faster and faster for America’s increasingly educated—and
increasingly insecure—middle class, you owe it to yourself to read this
book. It’s all here: the big trends, the compelling portraits, the ideas
for personal and political change, and the call to arms we so desperately need."
—Jacob S. Hacker, author of The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American
Jobs, Families, Health Care and Retirement and How You Can Fight Back
“This is the kind of book that you wish was fiction. But, as Nan Mooney's
incisive new book shows, the fact is that this generation has inherited an economy
with too many low-paying, no benefit jobs and an eroding middle class. Millions
of young families wonder where they went wrong when, in fact, their economic
problems are largely the result of policies that generated higher incomes for
a select few and rising economic insecurity for the rest of us. In this timely
book, Ms. Mooney pushes us to demand an economy that works for all of us, not
just the very wealthy.”
—Heather Boushey, Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Acquisitions:
In Confessions of an Eco-Sinner Fred Pearce takes us on a global
tour through the hidden worlds that sustain a Western lifestyle, and he does
it by examining the sources of everything in his own life: the shrimp in his
curry, the spices in his pantry, the wedding ring on his finger, the can his
beer comes in, the computer he works on, the electricity that powers it, and
more. It’s a fascinating look at how interconnected the global economy
is, at how industries from computer manufacture to gold mining work, and at
the often troubling but sometimes hopeful realities behind the fresh fish
we order at a restaurant, the fair trade coffee we buy, and the garbage we
discard. Fall 08.
The New York Observer posted a write-up in the November 29th issue
regarding Beacon’s acquisition of Carl Elliot’s tentatively titled
new book White Coat, Black Hat
Beacon Press is a department of the