Beacon Press: Weekly Report

Beacon Weekly Report

December 3, 2009

Acts of Faith, Eboo Patel, cloth, July 2007, $22.95, cloth, 978-0-8070-7726-9

WINNER of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award; announcement on Friday, December 4th. Congratulations!

Fist Stick Knife Gun, Geoffrey Canada, Paperback, $13.00, 978-0-8070-0423-4

60 Minutes; author and Harlem Children’s Zone will be the subject of a feature to air on Sunday, December 6th

PW Article on Beacon Press and The King Legacy

Stride Toward Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr., January 2010, paperback, $14.00, 978-0-8070-0069-4

Where Do We Go From Here, Martin Luther King, Jr., January 2010, paperback, $14.00, 978-0-8070-0067-0

Publisher’s Weekly; write-up featured in November 30th issue.

Click below to read:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6709137.html?q=beacon+press

Medicine in Translation, Danielle Ofri, January 2010, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7320-9

New Yorker; Tallk of Town; story on BLR; week of 11/30
New York Times/Science Times; Danielle has written Cases column; run date to come
NEJM; Danielle writing article about H1N1; week of 11/30
Psychology Today; Danielle now regular blogger
The New Physician; review in January issue
Working Nurse; review in January issue; a publication that goes to 150,000 nurses and students in the Southern California area. www.workngnurse.com
Journal of Addictive Diseases; running review along with interview with Danielle; January issue

Possibles:

New York Times/Science Times – Editor has given to Abigail Zuger, MD for possible review in her column

Stride Toward Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr., January 2010, paperback, $14.00, 978-0-8070-0069-4

Where Do We Go From Here, Martin Luther King, Jr., January 2010, paperback, $14.00, 978-0-8070-0067-0

Medicine in Translation, Danielle Ofri, January 2010, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7320-9

The Protest Psychosis, Jonathan M. Metzl, January 2010, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8592-9

Sowing Crisis, Rashid Khalidi, January 2010, paperback, $16.00, 978-0-8070-0311-4

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

Austin Chronicle; a nice long piece was written on the author and the book in the November 27th issue. It also promotes his upcoming event in Austin.

“The Young and the Digital is remarkably readable. Maybe even more remarkable is what a focused account Watkins has produced about a media climate that is still in flux, in which he ponders questions that may not be answered until this moment in media history has long passed.”

Click below to read:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A921376
The Texas Tribune; author appearance in a video interview for website, which goes live next week
KPFA Morning Show; author appearance on Friday December 4th, 8:30am PST
KUT Morning Edition, (an Austin NPR affiliate); author appearance on Monday December 7th

Hollowing Out The Middle, Patrick J. Carr And Maria J. Kefalas, October 2009, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4238-0

Bob Edwards Show/XM Satellite Radio; taped interview aired Wednesday, December 2nd and on Bob Edward Weekend Dec 6th

Radio Times/WHYY (NPR Philly); live in studio interview Wednesday, December 2nd; 11:00am – 12:00pm
Midmorning/Minnesota Public Radio; live in studio interview Friday, December 11th; 11:00 – 12:00pm EST

Surprised by God, Danya Ruttenberg, August 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1068-6

Selected as a finalist for the Jewish Book Council’s Samy Rohr prize. Author is also on board for a new pilot project with the Hillel Senior Jewish Educators program.

To read more about Hillel, click the link below:

http://www.hillel.org/about/news/2009/nov/2nov08_SJE.htm

The House of Secrets, Varda Polak-Sahm, August 2009, cloth, 978-0-8070-7742-9

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

Teachers College Record; review posted November 17th

A 150-word abstract is available here:

http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=15840
Sacramento News & Review; review with cover art ran in the November 14th issue

“Kunzman’s done a very readable survey of the entire phenomenon of home-schooling; while he concentrates on those who choose to educate their children at home for religious reasons, the social implication of the abandonment of the public school system will be with us no matter what the reason.”

Read the full review here:

http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/bibliolatry/blogs/post?oid=1323664

The Coming Population Crash, Fred Pearce, April 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-8583-7

"Fearless and well-informed; every paragraph crackles. Pearce evokes past and present with vivid detail and startlingly coherent insight."

—Jesse H. Ausubel, Director of the Program for the Human Environment and Senior Research Associate at The Rockefeller University
“The population ‘debate’ is so fraught with the history of colonialism that no one wants to touch it. Thank goodness that Fred Pearce has had the courage to write this informative, timely, and brilliant challenge to the commonly held vision of overwhelming population growth laying waste to the earth. This book is about hope - just in the nick of time.”

—Maude Barlow, author of Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water

The Overloaded Liberal, Fran Hawthorne, April 2010, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-3263-3

“People are quickly learning that living a simple, low-impact life actually isn’t so simple. Thankfully, there’s much needed relief to be found in Fran Hawthorne’s funny, poignant, and often eye-opening way of sorting through the dilemmas—and solutions—facing socially and environmentally minded consumers.”

—Greg Melville, author of Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future