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Beacon Weekly Report

August 27, 2009

Headlines:

Family Sentence, Jeanine Cornillot, October 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0038-0

  • Publisher’s Weekly; chosen as one of the “Indie Sleepers Top 20” Story to run August 31st

Write These Laws on Your Children, Robert Kunzman, August 2009, cloth, $27.95, 978-0-8070-3291-6

  • Note from Tom: Lots of buzz in education and homeschooling communities on this book—see below!

Publicity Reviews, and Praise:

The Young and the Digital, S. Craig Watkins, October 2009, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-6193-0

  • The Chronicle of Higher Education; author interview posted August 24th

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/How-Students-Professors-and/7787/

Nature’s Second Chance, Steven I. Apfelbaum, February 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-8582-0

  • Christian Century; review in the September 2009 issue

Write These Laws on Your Children, Robert Kunzman, August 2009, cloth, $27.95, 978-0-8070-3291-6

  • Washington Post.com; excellent piece ran Friday, August 21st in Jay Mathews’ online education column, “Class Struggle.” The post received many comments.

    “I am keeping Kunzman’s e-mail address in my source file, and his fine book on a nearby shelf where I can refer to it regularly.”

    Click here to read the entire piece: 

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/2009/08/three_smart_rules_for_home_sch.html 

    The Washington Post piece was also mentioned by a few homeschool blogs and has already sparked some lively online debate:

http://homeschooling.families.com/blog/is-testing-homeschoolers-really-a-bad-idea

http://homeschoolbuzz.com/2009/08/three-smart-rules-for-home-school.html

http://www.homeedmag.com/1231/home-school-regulation/

http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/3768/home-school-regulations/

Beacon Blurbs:

Dispatches from the Abortion Wars, Carole Joffe, January 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-3502-3

  • “With an insider’s eye and a searing intellect, Carole Joffe tells the true story of life on the front lines of abortion care.  In this remarkable book, Joffe once again demonstrates her phenomenal ability to transform people’s every day experiences into a cogent analysis of the critical issues of our times.”  

    —Maureen Paul MD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor, Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

The Protest Psychosis, Jonathan M. Metzl, January 2010, cloth, 978-0-8070-8592-9

  • “In this riveting book, Jonathan Metzl anatomizes the ways in which social forces, cultural anxieties, and political protests shaped schizophrenia as a black disease.  The story that emerges is fascinating and heartbreaking from the first word to the last.”

    —Emily Martin, author of Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture

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