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July 29, 2010

Headlines:

Banned in Boston, Neil Miller, September 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-5112-2

  • The Boston Globe Magazine; first serial excerpt will run in the Sunday, August 8th issue.

Nobody Turn Me Around, Charles Euchner, August 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-0059-5

Do It Anyway, Courtney Martin, September 2010, trade paperback, $16.00, 978-0-8070-0047-2

  • MS Magazine; recommends “Do it Anyway” in the Bookmarks section of their forthcoming August 12th issue:

    Where do we begin to “save the world”? Anywhere, answers Martin, who profiles eight activists under 35, including a feminist film-maker, an advocate for sexually abused soldiers and an environmentalist concerned with the racial politics of pollution.

Early Spring, Amy Seidl, paperback, March 2010, $15.00, 978-0-8070-8597-4

Pornland, Gail Dines, July 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4452-0

  • CNN News; Author interview July 28th :

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/07/28/am.intv.dines.pornland.cnn?iref=allsearch

  • Boston Globe; author interview in the July 27th issue

    The Shaping of Things

    In her new book, Wheelock professor Gail Dines warns that the prevalence of porn is twisting our attitudes about sex With just a few clicks of her desktop computer’s keyboard in her home office here, Gail Dines travels to a place she wishes did not exist: a pornographic website.
    The images seem designed to maximize the women’s humiliation, a point that is not lost on Dines. “If you really watch it carefully, you can see that they’re in pain, exhausted, demoralized,’’ she says, looking somberly at the screen.

    Click the link below for the full interview:
    http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2010/07/27/the_shaping_of_things/

Publicity Reviews, and Praise:

A House for Hope, John A. Buehrens and Rebecca Ann Parker, May 2010, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-7738-2

  • Washington Post; Rebecca Parker’s piece, “Oil Spill Spirituality,” went live today on the ‘On Faith’ section

    Parker’s timely piece on religion and the environment, hooks to the BP oil spill:

    “As a progressive person of faith, my heart sank. If we are going to end our addiction to oil, a spiritual awakening is needed - as anyone who has successfully recovered from a personal addiction through the 12-steps knows. Our religious traditions must help not hinder the cause. We need spiritual resources that can sustain us through the arduous task of re-orienting our economic system and changing our way of life so we "live simply that others may simply live."

    Click the link below to read the entire piece:
    http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/07/oil_spill_spirituality_the_environment_end_times_theology.html

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right, Moses et al, August 2010, paperback original, $16.00, 978-0-8070-3282-4

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

Nobody Turn Me Around, Charles Euchner, August 2010, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-0059-5

  • Madison the Black Eagle/XM Radio 169 The Power; Friday, Aug. 20 @ 8:00 – 8:30am EST, live by phone

  • KPOJ Mornings; Friday, August 27th; 9:30 – 9:45am EST (6:30 – 6:45am PST); live by phone

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