2014 Spring Books
Beacon Press Boston, Massachusetts
www.beacon.org | www.beaconbroadside.com Distributed in the U.S., Canada, and open market by Random House Publishing Services
Cover design: Gabi Anderson Cover image: James Baldwin, author of Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems (April 2014) and Notes of a Native Son, at his home, June 3, 1963, New York. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)
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Publisher’s Note Dear Friends, Although Beacon has not primarily been known to publish poetry, we have always had a select list of exceptional poets who reflect the values at the core of our mission, including for many years the premier poet of the natural world, Mary Oliver, and, of course, the inimitable Sonia Sanchez, who represents a vibrant tradition of oral interpretation that blends and bends the lines between verse and music. Sonia has famously performed with rap artists and memorably with Sweet Honey In The Rock. We are enormously proud of her work. We are also proud to have on our backlist several books of Spanish-language poets in bilingual editions, including a wonderful volume of Lorca and Jiménez and one of Neruda and Vallejo both translated by Robert Bly. This season, we add two books that build on this heritage and expand it in breathtaking ways. We are thrilled to bring back into print the poetry of James Baldwin, adding seven important poems that have never been released in the trade. Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems (p. 13) will represent all of Baldwin’s verse, including poems that had previously only been seen in a limited-edition volume called Gypsy, of which only 325 copies were ever printed. The volume will be introduced by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Nikky Finney. We hope it will demonstrate definitively why Baldwin always considered himself a poet. And this season, too, we offer a new book by Richard Blanco, the much-praised writer selected to be the Inaugural Poet in 2013. For All of Us, One Today (p. 25) contains the poem he read on that memorable occasion, along with the two other poems he prepared for the White House to consider, in bilingual form. The poems are folded into a graceful narrative of Blanco’s improbable road from an immigrant Cuban family, and as a gay man, to that podium; it is also beautifully embellished with the designs of artist Sergio Baradat. Billy Collins recently wrote of the book: “In this charming and engrossing book Richard Blanco traces his personal and literary development that led to his appointment as the inaugural poet. The high drama here is the backstage look into the pressure and process of writing the poem itself and the thrill of reading it to the world.” Two thrilling books, along with a host of others in these pages. Cheers,
Helene Atwan Director
Reimagine Affirmative Action in the Twenty-first Century • Make standardized tests like the SAT optional as they only mirror one’s socioeconomic status and don’t predict much about how well a student is going to perform in college. • Replace merit-based financial aid with need-based financial aid. • Dramatically expand outreach to recruit high-achieving students from overlooked places. • Provide special consideration for students who’ve overcome “structural disadvantages” like living in a poor neighborhood or coming from a family with low wealth, among other factors.
Adam Auel
• Abandon the politically fraught phrase “affirmative action” and champion place rather than race to build an alliance for radical reform that encourages rather than discourages cross-racial alliances and social mobility.
S h e ry l l C a s h i n , p ro fe s s o r o f l aw a t Georgetown University, is the author of The Agitator’s Daughter and The Failures of Integration, the latter an Editors’ Choice book in the New York Times Book Review. Cashin has published widely in academic journals and print media, including in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Education Week. A frequent commentator on law and race relations, she has appeared on National Public Radio, CNN, ABC News, BET, and numerous other outlets. Born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, where her parents were political activists, she was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and served in the Clinton White House as an advisor on urban and economic policy, particularly concerning community development in inner-city neighborhoods. She lives with her husband and two sons in Washington, DC.
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Sheryll Cashin
Place, Not Race A New Vision of Opportunity in America From a nationally recognized expert, a fresh and original argument for bettering affirmative action
Race-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases arrived at the Supreme Court. Since Ward Connerly kickstarted a state-by-state political mobilization against affirmative action in the mid-1990s, the percentage of public four-year colleges that consider racial or ethnic status in admissions has fallen from 60 percent to 35 percent. Only 45 percent of private colleges still explicitly consider race, with elite schools more likely to do so, although they, too, have retreated. Law professor and civil rights activist Sheryll Cashin argues that affirmative action as currently practiced does little to help disadvantaged people. Sixty years since the historic decision, we’re undoubtedly far from meeting the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, but Cashin offers a new framework for true inclusion for the millions of children who live separate and unequal lives. Setting aside race in use of place in diversity programming, she writes, will better amend the structural disadvantages endured by many children of color, while enhancing the possibility that we might one day move past the racial resentment that affirmative action engenders. A call for action toward the promise of equality, Place, Not Race persuasively shows how the social costs of racial preferences actually outweigh any marginal benefits of continuing to use them when raceneutral alternatives are available. “A thought-provoking look at affirmative action in America. Whether you agree or disagree with her ideas, it is an important debate for our country to have, and Place, Not Race is a critical contribution to that debate.” —Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi, editors
Salaam, Love American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, and Intimacy From the editors of the groundbreaking anthology Love, InshAllah comes a provocative new exploration of the most intimate parts of Muslim men’s lives.
Muslim men are stereotyped as either oversexed Casanovas willing to die for seventy-two virgins in heaven or controlling, big-bearded husbands ready to rampage at the hint of dishonor. The truth is, there are millions of Muslim men trying to figure out the complicated terrain of love, sex, and relationships just like any other American man. • Valentine’s Day promotion • Outreach to men’s, women’s, and general interest magazines; major city dailies; and culture outlets • National and regional NPR • Events in Los Angeles; San Francisco Bay Area; New York City; Washington, DC; Chicago; Atlanta; and Houston • Advertising targeting Muslim and relationship communities
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In Salaam, Love, Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi provide a space for American Muslim men to speak openly about their romantic lives, offering frank, funny, and insightful glimpses into their hearts—and bedrooms. The twenty-two writers come from a broad spectrum of ethnic, racial, and religious perspectives— including orthodox, cultural, and secular Muslims— reflecting the strength and diversity of their faith community and of America. By raising their voices to share stories of love and heartbreak, loyalty and betrayal, intimacy and insecurity, these Muslim men are leading the way for all men to recognize that being open and honest about their feelings is not only okay—it’s intimately connected to their lives and critical to their happiness and well-being. Ayesha Mattu is a writer and international development consultant. She lives in San Francisco. Nura Maznavi is a civil rights attorney, writer, and Fulbright scholar. She lives in Chicago.
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Deborah Jiang Stein
Prison Baby A Memoir A deeply personal and inspiring memoir recounting one woman’s struggles—beginning with her birth in prison—to find self-acceptance
Even at twelve years old Deborah Jiang Stein, the adopted daughter of a progressive Jewish couple in Seattle, felt like an outsider. Her multiracial features set her apart from her well-intentioned white parents, who evaded questions about her past. But when Deborah discovered a letter revealing the truth—that she was born in prison to a heroin-addicted mother and spent the first year of her life there—she spiraled into emotional lockdown. For years she turned to drugs, violence, and crime as a way to cope with her grief. Ultimately, Deborah overcame the stigma, shame, and secrecy of her birth and found peace by helping others—proving that redemption and acceptance is possible, even from the darkest corners “Deborah Jiang Stein has beaten the cycle of intergenerational incarceration, despite the odds against her—multiracial, born in a federal prison to a heroinaddicted mother. Her story offers hope to the possibility of personal transformation for anyone.” —Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and Pulitzer Prize nominee “The ways this woman discovers herself, via the revelation of her birth mother and her reconciliation with her adoptive mother, show us how dramatically different worlds intersect, and why those intersections are so important to who we are. . . . A powerful story.” —Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is the New Black Deborah Jiang Stein is a national speaker, writer, and founder of the unPrison Project, a nonprofit that serves to build public awareness about women and girls in prison and offers mentoring and life-skills programs for inmates. She lives in Minneapolis.
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ON SALE MARCH 4 Memoir $14.00 Paperback Original 978-0-8070-9810-3 $16.00 Canada Selling territory: World 5½ x 8½ / 176 pages E-book: 978-0-8070-9811-0
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S. Brent Plate
A History of Religion in 5½ Objects Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses A leading scholar explores the importance of physical objects and sensory experience in the practice of religion.
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ON SALE MARCH 11 Religion / History
Humans are needy. We need things: objects, keepsakes, knickknacks, bits and pieces, junk and treasure. As Brent Plate argues in A History of Religion in 5½ Objects, exploring the stuff of everyday existence is a window into the way humans have formed religious communities, performed rituals, and connected with the realm of the sacred. Beginning with the desirous, incomplete, human body (symbolically evoked by “½”), Plate tells the stories of five types of ordinary objects, each corresponding to a particular sense, that people have engaged with in sensory, symbolic, and sacred ways: stones, incense, drums, crosses, and bread. These objects have been used in religious ceremonies throughout history and across the world. As Plate looks at each of these objects, drawing on insights from poets and philosophers, modern artists and anthropologists, jazz and literature, he traces the history of the world’s religions and finds remarkable similarities and recurring themes throughout the millennia. A History of Religion in 5½ Objects moves our understanding of religion away from the current obsessions with God, fundamentalism, and science. Religion, Plate shows, has more to do with our bodies than with our beliefs.
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S. Brent Plate is visiting associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College and cofounder and managing editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief. He is the author of several books, and his writings have been published in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Religion Dispatches. He lives in Clinton, New York.
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Carol Corbett Burris
On the Same Track How Schools Can Join the Twenty-First-Century Struggle against Resegregation A public school principal’s account of the courageous leaders who have dismantled the tracking systems in their schools in order to desegregate classrooms
Since the beginning of the last century, the sorting of students into different “tracks” has resulted in segregated classrooms and unequal learning opportunities for students. On the Same Track traces the origins of tracking, from its beginnings in the early twentieth century to today. Carol Burris argues that the practice perpetuates de facto segregation in integrated districts, including those that were ordered by the courts to desegregate. Drawing on the latest research, Burris shows how tracking results in achievement gaps and racial and class stratification. She then chronicles the struggles of school leaders, teachers, and parents as they sought to overcome race, class, and intellectual prejudice and dismantle the student sorting systems in their schools. Finally, Burris cautions readers that some present-day reforms may in fact result in further racial and socioeconomic segregation, unintentionally undermining some of the progress that schools have made in creating more equitable learning experiences for children. Carol Burris is principal of South Side High School in the Rockville Centre School District in New York. In 2013 she was named New York State High School Principal of the Year. She is a frequent guest blogger on the Washington Post’s Answersheet blog and is coauthor of Detracking for Excellence and Equity and Opening the Common Core: How to Bring All Students to College and Career Readiness. She lives in East Rockaway, New York.
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ON SALE MARCH 18 Education $25.95 Hardcover 978-0-8070-3297-8 $28.95 Canada Selling territory: World 5½ x 8½ / 192 pages E-book: 978-0-8070-3298-5
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Six Common Myths about 12-Step Treatment Myth: Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs are a highly effective way to treat addiction. Fact: Twelve-step programs are among the least effective treatments in medicine, with an overall success rate of about 5–10 percent. Myth: There simply are no good alternatives to 12-step programs for treating addiction. Fact: Better alternatives are available. Myth: There is solid scientific evidence for the effectiveness of AA and rehab programs. Fact: There is no solid scientific evidence for the effectiveness of AA or rehab programs. Studies that purport to show their effectiveness are riddled with scientific errors. Myth: Twelve-step programs never fail, but some addicts simply aren’t ready to work the steps and need to repeat them when they relapse. Fact: In no other field of medicine or psychiatry is the patient blamed when the treatment fails. Myth: Rehab programs are staffed by competent professionals and offer a mix of sophisticated treatments for addiction. Fact: Virtually every rehab program in the country is based on the 12-step model and is mostly staffed by minimally trained personnel, including many with training in unproven and irrelevant fields, and by former addicts with few credentials. Myth: Twelve-step programs are not religious. Fact: AA was founded after Bill Wilson had a hallucinatory religious conversion and is still based on a fundamentalist Christian model that believes health and salvation come from purging oneself from sin by devoting oneself more closely to God, sometimes referred to as a Higher Power.
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Lance Dodes, MD, and Zachary Dodes
The Sober Truth Debunking the Bad Science behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry An exposé of Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-step programs, and the growing for-profit rehab industry and how a failed addiction-treatment model came to dominate America
AA has become so infused in our society that it has become practically synonymous with addiction recovery. Yet, there exists very little empirical data proving that AA and other 12-step programs are effective in helping addicts heal. Despite reports claiming that AA only has a 5–10 percent success rate, countless doctors, judges, and employers continue to refer their addicted patients for treatments based on the 12-step model, rehabilitation facilities center their programs around this model, and many addicts themselves are simply unaware of any other options available to them. This book gives a well-reasoned rebuke to the notion that AA is for everyone, an idea that no other field of medicine would entertain. Armed with rigorous analysis, cutting-edge research, and convincing case studies, Dr. Dodes builds a powerful and compelling case against the monopoly of the 12-step program. He suggests treatment that takes a multifaceted approach to every patient, acknowledging personal history, psychological and physical health, and the unique road that leads an individual to addiction. The Sober Truth offers actionable information for addicts, their families, and medical providers seeking a more intelligent, effective, and compassionate approach to understand and treat addiction.
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ON SALE MARCH 25 Psychology $26.95 Hardcover
Lance Dodes, MD, has more than thirty-five years of experience treating people with addictions. He is the author of The Heart of Addiction and Breaking Addiction. He was training and supervising analyst with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He lives in Los Angeles.
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We Lived Through This (From top left) the women of Atenco, Angela Moseley, Helen Finch, Stephanie Strader, and Katie Feifer
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Anne K. Ream
Lived Through This Listening to the Stories of Sexual Violence Survivors Photographs by Patricia Evans A moving collection of narrative and photographic profiles of sexual violence survivors by an awardwinning writer and photographer
Eight years ago, writer Anne K. Ream and photographer Patricia Evans embarked on a unique journey. Their goal was to document the stories of sexual violence survivors willing to share their names and faces in order to show that they have been shaped—but are not defined—by the violence they have lived through. Partly a personal history of Ream’s own experience rebuilding her life in the wake of sexual violence, partly a memoir of a journey spent listening to survivors, Lived Through This is both deeply personal and resolutely political. From the women of Atenco, Mexico, who are subjects of a high profile Amnesty International campaign, to Fatou Diallo, a Senegalese rap star who is using her music to address sexual violence in Africa to Dorothy Allison (Bastard Out of Carolina), who speaks candidly about how her personal experience inspired her award-winning book, Lived Through This is about listening to—and learning from—sexual violence survivors. The accomplished, courageous, and deeply human women and men profiled in this book are, in the words of the author, “living reminders of all that remains possible in the wake of the terrible.” Against all odds, they give us hope.
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Anne K. Ream is the founder of the Voices and Faces Project, an award-winning storytelling project. A past finalist for the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor documentary prize for her profiles of sexual violence survivors, Ream’s essays and opinion pieces have been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, and in The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan. She is a regular contributor to New City Chicago, where she writes about music.
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Katherine S. Newman and Ariane De Lannoy
After Freedom The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict.
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ON SALE APRIL 22 Sociology $35.00 Hardcover 978-0-8070-0746-4 $40.00 Canada Selling territory: World Two illustrations and 19 B&W photographs by Jillian Edelstein 6 x 9 / 320 pages E-book: 978-0-8070-0747-1
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This spring, South Africa will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of apartheid and the first free elections. Although the country has come far, frustration is growing as inequalities that once divided the races now grow within them. In After Freedom, award-winning sociologist Katherine S. Newman and South African expert Ariane De Lannoy profile seven people—Black, White, “Coloured,” and immigrant— to reveal what life is like in South Africa today. These on-the-ground portraits offer an intimate look at the rising generation of young people and explore what the complex political landscape means to the average person. After Freedom is a timely look at how the generation that came of age post-apartheid is grappling with a tenuous democracy in a globalized economy. Katherine S. Newman is the James Knapp Dean of the Arts and Sciences and professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of twelve books on poverty, the working poor, and the consequences of inequality, including The Accordion Family and The Missing Class. She lives in Baltimore. Ariane De Lannoy is a senior researcher at the Children’s Institute and lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on youth transitions to adulthood in South Africa, and she has published on young adults’ educational decision making, youth belonging and citizenship, and youth violence in a context of poverty. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
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James Baldwin
Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems Introduction by Nikky Finney All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition
During his lifetime, James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, many of which were published to widespread praise. Baldwin’s novels and essays brought him respect as a public intellectual and admiration as a writer. However, Baldwin’s earliest writing was in poetic form, and some argue that even Baldwin considered himself a poet first and foremost. One can see this inclination in the poetic rhythms of his prose. Nonetheless, his single book of poetry, Jimmy’s Blues, published only a few short years before his death in 1987, never attracted as much of the spotlight as his novels and nonfiction did and has been unavailable for many years. This new collection celebrates Baldwin the poet. Including the nineteen poems from Jimmy’s Blues, the collection also features his poems from a limited-edition art book called Gypsy, of which only 325 copies were ever printed. Known for his relentless honesty and startlingly prophetic insights on issues of race, class, poverty, and sexual orientation, Baldwin is just as enlightening and bold in his poetry as in his famous novels and essays. James Baldwin (1924–1987) was one of America’s foremost writers and is the author of many novels and essay collections, including Notes of a Native Son.
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Can You Afford to Retire? Looming retirement crisis. Almost half of middle-class workers will be poor or near poor in retirement. In 2010, 75 percent of Americans nearing retirement had less than $30,000 in their retirement accounts. A great risk shift. In 1981, 59 percent of private sector workers with retirement benefits had traditional pension plans. By 2010 that figure dropped to 19 percent, as 81 percent now had 401(k) and similar private investment plans. Costly hidden fees. The Department of Labor has shown that even a mere 1 percent increase in fees deducted over the course of investing will reduce your final balance by 28 percent.
Why It’s Time to Retire the 401(k) Myth 1: 401(k)s produce higher rates of return than traditional pensions or Social Security. Myth 2: 401(k)s are cheaper for employers and employees than traditional pensions. Myth 3: 401(k)s fail to provide adequate retirement income only when individuals do not save enough. Myth 4: There is no fiscally sustainable alternative to 401(k)s.
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James W. Russell
Social Insecurity 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis How 401(k)s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensions
Each generation of workers since the nineteenth century has had more retirement security than the previous generation. That is, until 1981, when 401(k)s began replacing traditional pensions. For the last thirty years, we’ve been advised that the best way to build one’s nest egg is to invest in 401(k)-type programs. This financial experiment, promoted by neoliberals and Wall Street, has come full circle, with tens of millions of Americans now discovering that they would have been better off under traditional pension plans long since replaced. As James W. Russell explains, this do-it-yourself pension system—in which individuals with modest incomes are expected to invest large sums of capital in order to reap the same results as professional high-end money managers—isn’t working. Social Insecurity tells the story of a massive and international retirement robbery—from its ideological origins in Milton Friedman’s infamous Chicago School to its implementation in Chile under Pinochet’s dictatorship and adoption in America via Reaganomics. James W. Russell is the author of eight books, including Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States. An authority on retirement policy in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, he led one of the first employee movements to successfully challenge the dominant trend and replace a 401(k)-like plan with a more secure traditional pension plan. He has taught at universities in the United States and as a Fulbright professor in Mexico and the Czech Republic. He lives in Storrs, Connecticut.
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John Shivik
The Predator Paradox Ending the War with Wolves, Bears, Cougars, and Coyotes An expert in wildlife management tells the stories of those who are finding new ways for humans and mammalian predators to coexist.
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The longest armed conflict carried out by the United States government, beginning in 1914, is our war with predators. The death toll is tremendous: federal agents kill ninety thousand wolves, bears, coyotes, and cougars every year. The paradox is that we need to safeguard ourselves and livestock from predators, while simultaneously preserving and protecting these key species—fundamental components of healthy ecosystems. Shivik argues that we can end the war. By shifting away from “death from above” and embracing nonlethal approaches to managing wildlife—practices and technologies he has helped pioneer—we can dismantle the paradox, have both people and predators on the landscape, and ensure the long-term survival of both. Blending the science of the wild with entertaining and dramatic storytelling throughout, Shivik traces the culture of “good old boy” wildlife managers and observes the difference two cows can make to a widow rancher. Shivik’s clear-eyed pragmatism allows him appeal to both sides of the debate, while arguing for the possibility of coexistence: between ranchers and conservationists, wildlife managers and animalwelfare activists, and humans and animals. John Shivik is a recognized leader in nonlethal techniques for predator management. As a federal and university researcher, he has investigated mammalian predators in ecological systems throughout the United States and Europe. His numerous scientific works have been published in the Journal of Wildlife Management, Conservation Biology, and BioScience, among others. He lives in Logan, Utah.
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Barron Lerner
Two Doctors A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of American Medicine The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care
Medicine has undergone drastic changes over the decades—from a highly patriarchal system where doctor knew best and made decisions accordingly to today’s more patient-centered system, where wellinformed patients often take the lead. Dr. Phillip Lerner, the author’s father, practiced at a time when doctors commanded unparalleled respect, making most decisions for their patients, even about life and death. When Barron read in his father’s journals how he’d once thrown himself over the body of a dying patient to prevent his colleagues from resuscitating her, the younger Lerner was shocked. Used to patients who are informed, involved, and even activists, the son saw his father’s action as that of a doctor “playing God,” with the kind of paternalism that has no place in the new reality of medicine. Later, as a seasoned doctor, Barron Lerner came to understand the constantly shifting nature of ethics in medicine. Through his father’s stories, his own recollections, and his professional expertise, Dr. Lerner investigates the ethical shifts that have shaken the medical profession over the past four decades. Two Doctors is the story of one American family and its intersection with the transformation of the practice of medicine for doctors and their patients. Barron Lerner is the author of four previous books on medicine and a frequent contributor to the New York Times’ Well blog. He lives in Hastings on Hudson, New York, and is a bioethicist with appointments at Columbia University and New York University’s Langone School of Medicine.
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Aviva Chomsky
Undocumented How Immigration Became Illegal Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context
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Immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how and why people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this status—and to what ends. Blending history with human drama, Chomsky explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic, and historical context. She also unmasks how undocumented people live—how they work, what social services they’re eligible for, and how being undocumented affects the lives of children and families. Undocumented turns a fresh lens onto one of today’s most pressing debates. “Undocumented is to the immigrant rights movement what We Charge Genocide was to the African American movement—a dossier that sets aside quibbles about whether immigrants contribute to the US economy or not, whether immigrants speak English or not and gives flesh to the slogan, ‘Immigrant rights are human rights.’ A clear-headed and smart book that locates the struggles of immigrants squarely in the struggles for human rights. Nothing less is to be accommodated, and much more is to be imagined.” —Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations Aviva Chomsky is professor of history and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State College. The author of several books, Chomsky has been active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights issues for more than twenty-five years. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald
The Real Cost of Fracking How America’s Shale-Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food Foreword by Sandra Steingraber A pharmacologist and a veterinarian pull back the curtain on the human and animal health effects of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”
The extraction of natural gas by fracking has become an increasingly visible and contentious issue. Fracked gas is being touted across the land and at the highest levels as the nation’s answer to energy independence, a fix for the flagging economy and high unemployment, and a way to combat global warming with “clean energy.” Drilling companies assure us that the process is safe. In The Real Cost of Fracking, Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald give the other side of the story. They have documented dozens of cases of contamination at drilling sites across the country, where people, pets, and livestock can’t drink their water or breathe their air without getting sick. Bamberger and Oswald explore the health effects on living creatures, putting a face on the consequences of fracking by telling the heartrending stories of affected families. This probing study will appeal to those interested in this burgeoning form of energy, as well as in issues of public health, environmental justice, and the safety of our food supply. Michelle Bamberger is a veterinarian and the author of two books on first aid for cats and dogs. Robert Oswald is a professor of molecular medicine at Cornell University and the recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships. They live in Ithaca, New York.
• Outreach to media focusing on environment, conservation, and energy issues • Local and regional radio interviews • Advertising to environmental conservation audiences in print and online • Academic promotion: Environmental studies
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Praise for the Writing of Richard Hoffman Praise for Half the House “Half the House offers heartening evidence, to borrow William Faulkner’s phrase, of the human capacity to endure and prevail.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World “Spare, poignant.”—Time “As stark and graceful as a bare winter tree.”—Los Angeles Times “Hoffman makes very clear the complex encounter of his old life and his new one. There are no easy wrap-ups, no comforting bromides. But in the generational panorama we suddenly discern that a hard, brave victory has been achieved. The family saga has come full circle. Hoffman, sober, a father, has not only lived to tell the tale. He has worked to understand it and fashion it into art.” — Sven Birkerts in Then, Again: Aspects of Contemporary Memoir “Ultimately a story of love, reconciliation, and triumph over adversity.”—Library Journal “A scorching account of the dark underside of family life. A powerful depiction of childhood as Purgatory and the scars left on the man who survives.”—Richard Selzer
Praise for Interference and Other Stories “Richard Hoffman writes about male sadness and vulnerability with unusual insight and tough-minded compassion.”—Tom Perrotta
Richard Howard
“Richard Hoffman’s vision is wide and deep, and he evokes his characters with an artful grace that is a joy to read. Interference is a triumph!”—Andre Dubus III
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Richard Hoffman
Love & Fury An acclaimed author reflects on his upbringing in a post–World War II blue-collar family and struggles to come to terms with the nature of American masculinity.
Love & Fury tells a story that comprises five generations of an American family, examining the continuing impact of history as it shapes the lives of people struggling with the complexities of contemporary life. From the author’s grandfather, a “breaker boy” sent down into the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania at the age of ten, to his young grandson, whose father is among the estimated one million young black men incarcerated today, Love & Fury offers an examination of the social, familial, and ethical contours of American life. With honesty and compassion, Hoffman grapples with the values he inherited in his boomer-generation boyhood from a father whose ideas about masculinity, race, class, violence, women, and religion were a product of his time. At the book’s core are the author’s questions about boyhood, fatherhood, and grandfatherhood, and about what it means to be a good man in our modern society. A masterful memoirist, Hoffman writes not only to tell a gripping story but also to understand, through his family, the America in which we live. Richard Hoffman is author of Half the House: A Memoir; the poetry collections Without Paradise, Emblem, and Gold Star Road, winner of both the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the 2008 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club; and the short story collection Interference and Other Stories. He is senior writer-in-residence at Emerson College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Father’s Day promotion • Outreach to literary, culture, history, men’s, and family outlets • National and regional NPR • Events in New England • Advertising targeting literary audiences in print and online • Academic promotion: Literature, English, and writing
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From Among Chimpanzees Gombe, 1972 Juma and Peter were keeping up fairly well with the chimps, losing sight of them only occasionally. They were wearing khaki shorts and Tanzanian plastic sandals, and their legs were scratched repeatedly by bushes along the side of the path. I, on the other hand, quickly fell so far behind that I could no longer see chimps or observers. “Now what do I do?” I muttered out loud to myself, checking out one particularly large scratch across my knee. Just then, Juma sounded his distinctive call, something like the sound children make when playing Indians, to let me know they were nearby and in which direction. Feeling relieved that I wasn’t entirely lost, I clambered up the mountainside as rapidly as I could. The path was steep, and by the time I arrived, I was breathless and worn out—and very happy to see Peter and chimps seated on the ground, paused for at least a few moments. I bent over in exhaustion and put my hand up on a tree branch to steady myself, only to realize that I had placed my hand on top of someone else’s. I looked up to apologize to Juma, assuming it was his but instead found myself face-to-face with a young chimp named Pom, who was sitting in a low-lying tree. She gave me a curious look, implying “Don’t you know you aren’t supposed to touch us?” I removed my hand as quietly and respectfully as possible and backed away.
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Nancy Merrick
Among Chimpanzees Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives Foreword by Jane Goodall A former student and colleague of Jane Goodall shares stories of chimps and their heroes, and takes readers on a journey to save man’s closest relative.
Unbeknownst to much of the public, there is a looming crisis for Great Apes: chimps are extinct in four African countries and nearly so in twelve others. A large percentage of the remaining populations live in unprotected, increasingly fragmented African forests that are under siege. Veteran chimp researcher Nancy Merrick takes us from the early days of primate research, when wild chimpanzees were abundant and the world was spellbound by emerging details of their behavior, to today’s critical conservation efforts. Along the way, Merrick demonstrates that the best hope for chimps and other Great Apes lies in connecting conservation to humanitarian efforts, ensuring a healthy future for animals and humans alike. Featuring fresh stories of the remarkable chimps and the inspirational work of today’s leading conservationists, Among Chimpanzees will stir readers to care about the fate of our chimps—and to get involved in chimp conservation. Nancy Merrick is an accomplished physician internist and a reviewer for the Annals of Internal Medicine. She is the creator of ChimpSaver.org, a website enabling users to advocate on behalf of chimps, and is rapidly becoming a recognized leader in the battle to save Great Apes. She lives in Ventura, California.
• Tie-in to Jane Goodall’s eightieth birthday • Outreach to national science, environment, and conservation media • Event series at bookstores, zoos, and museums • Advertising targeting wildlife conservation audiences in print and online • Academic promotion: Nature and wildlife studies
ON SALE JUNE 17 Nature $27.95 Hardcover 978-0-8070-8490-8 $32.95 Canada Selling territory: World Trans., aud.: Author 6 x 9 / 288 pages E-book: 978-0-8070-8491-5
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Marcus Rediker
Outlaws of the Atlantic Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail This maritime history “from below” exposes the history-making power of common sailors, slaves, pirates, and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall ship.
• Outreach to national print and online culture publications • Targeted outreach to history and education outlets • Regional public radio interviews • Advertising targeting American history and maritime history audiences • Academic promotion: History and maritime studies
ON SALE AUGUST 12 History $26.95 Hardcover 978-0-8070-3309-8 $31.00 Canada Selling territory: USCOM First ser., UK, trans.: Agent Illustrations 6 x 9 / 248 pages E-book: 978-0-8070-3310-4
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Outlaws of the Atlantic turns maritime history upside down, exploring the dramatic world of seafaring adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and other builders of empire, but rather from the point-of-view of common people whose labors made that world possible—sailors, slaves, indentured servants, pirates, and other outlaws—whose formative experiences at sea are brought together for the first time. Against long-dominant national histories, Rediker shows that important historical processes transpired on the vast, nationless commons called the sea: the rise of capitalism, the formation of race and class, and the creation, from below, of oppositional cultures that promised more just and democratic ways of life. Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the George Washington Book Prize (2008), the Organization of American Historians’ Merle Cuti Award (2008), and the Sol Stetin Award for Labor History (2013). His books include The Many-Headed Hydra (with Peter Linebaugh), Villains of All Nations, The Slave Ship, and The Amistad Rebellion. He lives in Pittsburgh.
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Late Addition to Our Fall 2013 List
Richard Blanco
For All of Us, One Today An Inaugural Poet’s Journey A fluid, poetic memoir anchored by Richard Blanco’s experiences as America’s fifth inaugural poet
In this brief and evocative memoir, Richard Blanco shares his life as a Latino immigrant and openly gay man discovering a new, emotional understanding of what it means to be an American. He tells the story of the call from the White House committee and all the exhilaration and upheaval of the days that followed. He reveals the inspiration and challenges behind the creation of the inaugural poem, “One Today,” as well as two other poems commissioned for the occasion (“Mother Country” and “What We Know of Country”), published here for the first time ever, alongside translations of all three poems into his native Spanish. Finally, Blanco reflects on his spiritual embrace of Americans everywhere through the power of poetry and his vision for its new role in our nation’s consciousness. Like the inaugural poem itself, For All of Us, One Today speaks to what makes this country and its people great, marking a triumphant moment in American history and letters. The volume is handsomely bound in an original paperback format with elegant French flaps. Selected by President Obama to be the fifth inaugural poet in history, Richard Blanco is the youngest, first Latino, first immigrant, and first openly gay person to serve in the role. The negotiation of cultural identity and universal themes of place and belonging characterize his three collections of poetry—City of a Hundred Fires, Directions to The Beach of the Dead, and Looking for The Gulf Motel. Blanco is a fellow of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. He lives in Bethel, Maine.
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Coming to Paperback ON SALE FEBRUARY 4 Religion $15.00 Paperback 978-0-8070-8608-7 $17.00 Canada Selling territory: World 5¼ x 8 / 272 pages Hardcover: 978-0-8070-8603-2 E-book: 978-0-8070-8604-9
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Thou, Dear God” Prayers That Open Hearts and Spirits Edited by Lewis V. Baldwin Foreword by The Reverend Dr. Julius Scruggs
“Many of us are eager to learn all we can about Dr. King. . . . ‘Thou, Dear God’ provides a unique and needed window into his spiritual life.” —Brian D. McLaren, author of A New Kind of Christianity • Promotion targeting faith communities
ON SALE FEBRUARY 25 Current Events $16.00 Paperback 978-0-8070-3322-7
David D. Burstein
Fast Future How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World
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“Everyone who is fascinated by Millennials—and how can we not be?—will learn something from this book.” —Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour “Fast Future is at least as much a telling of the generation’s story as it is a declaration of its potential.” —David Gergen, senior political analyst, CNN • Promotion to business communities
ON SALE FEBRUARY 25 Memoir / Nature $18.00 Paperback 978-0-8070-1446-2
Eva Saulitis
Into Great Silence A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
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“Informative . . . beautiful.”
—Orion
“Candid, transfixing, and cautionary, Saulitis celebrates and mourns for a wondrous and imperiled species.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist • Academic promotion: Science and environmental studies
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Coming to Paperback
Nancy Rubin Stuart
Defiant Brides The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married “Stuart . . . draws on her long experience writing about women and social history to show that strong women have always driven their husbands to perform prominent actions, both good and bad.” —Kirkus Reviews • Academic promotion: American history and women’s studies
Rashid Khalidi
Brokers of Deceit How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
ON SALE MARCH 4 History $18.00 Paperback 978-0-8070-3326-5 $20.00 Canada Selling territory: World 6 B&W images 6 x 9 / 264 pages Hardcover: 978-0-8070-0117-2 E-book: 978-0-8070-0118-9
ON SALE MARCH 11 History $16.00 Paperback 978-0-8070-3324-1 $18.00 Canada
“Professor Khalidi deserves much credit for his superb exposition of the fatal gap between the rhetoric and reality of American diplomacy on this critically important issue.” —Avi Shlaim, emeritus professor of international relations at Oxford University and author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
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Christine Byl
Dirt Work An Education in the Woods
ON SALE MARCH 11 Memoir / Nature $18.00 Paperback 978-0-8070-3327-2
Selected as a “Riveting Read” by O Magazine
$20.00 Canada
“This chronicle of years spent as a ‘traildog’ . . . blends beauty and crudeness, grit and grace. . . . With language that is lyrical despite the earthiness of its subject, Byl turns the words of work into found poetry. . . . A beautiful memoir of muscle and metal.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Coming to Paperback ON SALE MARCH 25 Memoir / Environment $18.00 Paperback 978-0-8070-3325-8 $20.00 Canada Selling territory: World 6 x 9 / 248 pages Hardcover: 978-0-8070-0329-9 E-book: 978-0-8070-0330-5
Brad Tyer
Opportunity, Montana Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape “Straightforward, heartfelt, and elegant.” —Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia and Great Plains “Memoir, history, and the unequal application of economic justice come together in Tyer’s deeply felt and sharply penned nonfiction debut.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review • Academic promotion: environmental studies
O N S A L E M AY 6 Medicine $15.00 Paperback 978-0-8070-3330-2 $17.00 Canada Selling territory: World
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Danielle Ofri, MD
What Doctors Feel How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine “A fascinating journey into the heart and mind of a physician struggling to do the best for her patients. . . . Her voice is one that deserves to be heard and listened to carefully, as what she describes carries great significance for all of us within the health care system, patients and healers alike.” —Dennis Rosen, The Boston Globe • Tie-in with author’s lecture schedule • Academic promotion: medical studies
O N S A L E M AY 1 3 Memoir $16.00 Paperback 978-0-8070-3331-9 $18.00 Canada Selling territory: World
Claire Conner
Wrapped in the Flag A Personal History of America’s Radical Right “An invaluable contribution to understanding the mentality of extremist conservatism and its supporters.” —Kirkus Reviews
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“An affecting portrait of late-20th-century America on the fringe.” —Publishers Weekly • Promotion to progressive audiences
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Fall 2013 Highlights
Bill Ayers Public Enemy
Lauren Slater Playing House
Mirta Ojito Hunting Season
Confessions of an American Dissident 3276-3 / $24.95 hc
Notes of a Reluctant Mother 0173-8 / $24.95 hc On Sale November 5
Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town 0181-3 / $24.95 hc
Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali Sons of Abraham
Martin Luther King, Jr. A Time to Break Silence
Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, and Michael Amico “You Can Tell Just by Looking”
A Candid Conversation about the Issues That Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims Foreword by President Bill Clinton 3307-4 / $25.95 hc
Enrico Gnaulati, PhD Back to Normal Why Ordinary Childhood Behavior Is Mistaken for ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder 7334-6 / $26.95 hc
The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students 3318-0 / $26.95 hc 3305-0 / $14.00 pb On sale November 5
And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People 4245-8 / $16.00 pbo
Erika Janik Marketplace of the Marvelous
Jeannie Marshall The Lost Art of Feeding Kids
The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine 2208-5 / $28.95 hc On Sale January 7
What Italy Taught Me about Why Children Need Real Food 3299-2 / $24.95 hc
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Index by Author
Index by Title
Baldwin / Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems . . . . . . . 13
After Freedom / Newman and De Lannoy . . . . . . . 12
Bamberger and Oswald / Real Cost of Fracking, The . 19
Among Chimpanzees / Merrick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Blanco / For All of Us, One Today. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Brokers of Deceit / Khalidi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Burris / On the Same Track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Defiant Brides / Stuart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Burstein / Fast Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Dirt Work / Byl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Byl / Dirt Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Fast Future / Burstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Cashin / Place, Not Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
For All of Us, One Today / Blanco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Chomksy / Undocumented. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
History of Religion in 5½ Objects, A / Plate . . . . . . . . 6
Conner / Wrapped in the Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Into Great Silence / Saulitis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Dodes / Sober Truth, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems / Baldwin . . . . . . . 13
Hoffman / Love & Fury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Lived Through This / Ream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Jiang Stein / Prison Baby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Love & Fury / Hoffman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Khalidi / Brokers of Deceit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
On the Same Track / Burris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
King, Jr. / “Thou, Dear God” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Opportunity, Montana / Tyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Lerner / Two Doctors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Outlaws of the Atlantic / Rediker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Mattu and Maznavi / Salaam, Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Place, Not Race / Cashin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Merrick / Among Chimpanzees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Predator Paradox, The / Shivik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Newman and De Lannoy / After Freedom . . . . . . . 12
Prison Baby / Jiang Stein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Ofri / What Doctors Feel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Real Cost of Fracking, The / Bamberger and Oswald . 19
Plate / History of Religion in 5½ Objects, A . . . . . . . . 6
Salaam, Love / Mattu and Maznavi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Ream / Lived Through This . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Sober Truth, The / Dodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Rediker / Outlaws of the Atlantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Social Insecurity / Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Russell / Social Insecurity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
“Thou, Dear God” / King, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Saulitis / Into Great Silence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Two Doctors / Lerner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Shivik / Predator Paradox, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Undocumented / Chomksy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Stuart / Defiant Brides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
What Doctors Feel / Ofri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Tyer / Opportunity, Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Wrapped in the Flag / Conner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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