Spring 2015 Catalog by Veronica Liu

Seven Stories Press 140 Watts Street New York, NY 10013

Spring 2015 Seven Stories Press

SE V E N S T OR IE S PR E S S Spring 2015 Catalog including new titles from Triangle Square books for young readers

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Recent Awards and Honors The Albino Album

LoveStar

chavisa woods

andri snÆr magnason

Finalist for the 2013 Lambda Award for Lesbian General Fiction

Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation of Excellence 2012

Mundo Cruel

The Story of the Blue Planet

Winner of the 2013 Lambda Award for Gay General Fiction

Selected as an Honor Book for The Nature Generation’s 2013 Green Earth Book Award in Children’s Fiction

luis negrón

What Makes a Baby cory silverberg

Finalist for the 2013 Lambda Award for LGBT Children/Young Adult

andri snÆr magnason

Birth Matters

ina may gaskin

Generation Roe

Named one of the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Top 6 Books of 2011

Selected for honor by the 2014 ALA Amanda Bloomer Project

loretta napoleoni

sarah erdreich

The Graphic Canon

edited by russ kick

Publishers Weekly Top 10 Graphic Books of the Season “The graphic literary publishing event of the year!” A New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” Honorable Mention for “Comics World’s 2012 Graphic Novel Critics’ Poll” (Vols. 1 & 2) Brain Pickings Best Graphic Novels of 2013 (Volume 2)

Maonomics

First prize for a work on Economics by the Italian Association for Economic Development Ina May Gaskin

author of birth matters

Winner of the Right Livelihood Award, 2011 God Breaketh Not All Men’s Hearts Alike stanley moss

Winner of the Pushcart Prize for “Song of No God”

Great Reads in Store: Indie Booksellers Pick 2012’s Best (NPR)

Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?

Suzanne Jill Levine

translator for mundo cruel

Named a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction title of 2011

Winner of the 2012 PEN Center USA Translation Award

Named one of Electric Literature’s Most Beautiful Books of the Year, 2011

Stephanie McMillan

author of the minimum security chronicles

Winner of the 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award 3

johan harstad

contents Triangle Square Books for Young Readers Sex is a Funny Word cory silverberg

The Third Chimpanzee for Young People jared diamond

The Mummy-Makers of Egypt tamara bower

Seven Stories Press The Islamist Phoenix loretta napoleoni

My Florence art shay

13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty mario marazziti

Compañeras hilary klein

World Report 2015 human rights watch

Ma, It’s a Cold Aul Night an I’m Lookin for a Bed martha long

Ma, I’m Getting Meself a New Mammy martha long

Listen, Yankee! tom hayden

The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea prum vannak

The Emperor, C’est Moi hugo horiot

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Return to Sender ralph nader

Congress and the Shaping of the Middle East kirk beattie

My Depression elizabeth swados

Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind anne roiphe

The Body Where I Was Born guadalupe nettel

Natural Histories guadalupe nettel

Minecraft daniel goldberg and linus larsson

Thony Belizaire: Witness to History thony belizaire & raoul peck

From the Third Eye ed halter & barney rosset

A History of Marriage elizabeth abbott

Overpowered martin blank, phd

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T R I A NGLE SQUA R E books for young readers

Sex Is a Funny Word

A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU

Cory S i lv e r be rg i l lust rated by F ion a Sm y t h

For ages eight and up, the first truly inclusive sex education book for children of all genders and identities. A comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender identities, Sex Is a Funny Word is an essential resource about bodies, gender, and sexuality for children ages 8 to 10 as well as their parents and caregivers. Much more than the “facts of life” or “the birds and the bees,” Sex Is a Funny Word opens up conversations between young people and their caregivers in a way that allows adults to convey their values and beliefs while providing information about boundaries, safety, and joy. The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Lambda-nominated What Makes a Baby, from sex educator Cory Silverberg and artist Fiona Smyth, Sex Is a Funny Word reimagines “sex talk” for the twenty-first century. Raised by a children’s librarian and a sex therapist, CORY SILVERBERG grew up to be a sexuality educator and a writer. He is the coauthor of The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability and has been About.com’s sexuality expert since 2005. In 2012 Cory’s second book, What Makes a Baby, became the most funded picture book on Kickstarter. He lectures and trains across North America on sexuality, gender, access, and inclusion. FIONA SMYTH is a Toronto-based painter, illustrator, and cartoonist. Her first

graphic novel, The Never Weres, was published by Annick Press in 2011. Fiona’s comic Cheez was published in Exclaim! magazine for almost ten years, and her comic Fazooz was in Vice for eight years. Smyth teaches illustration and comics at OCAD U in Toronto.

june 10, 2015 hardcover • $23.95 7.25" x 9" • 160 pages 978-1-60980-606-4 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-607-1

• Launch events in NYC and Toronto • Author’s previous book, What Makes a Baby, is translated into six languages and was nominated for a Lambda Award for LGBT Children’s/ Young Adult in 2014 and was named a Best Books for Kids & Teens 2013 by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre • Book featured at the ABA Children’s Institute and other trade shows and book festivals

• 19 full color comics • 20 pages of questions and activities for children to complete (alone or with a parent or caregiver) • Glossary covering key terms related to sexual orientation, identity, and puberty

• Free Reader’s Guide for parents, educators, and librarians, available for download • First sex education book to be inclusive of youth across the gender spectrum, including transgender youth

The Third Chimpanzee for Young People

On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

Ja r e d Di a mon d ad apted by R e be cc a S t e f of f

This adapation of Diamond’s first book encompasses the themes of all his books in one bold, illustrated volume for young adults. Over the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft, genocide, and nuclear weapons—all in a heartbeat of evolutionary time. Now, faced with the threat of climate change, our creative and problem-solving abilities are in a race against our own destructive tendencies as we reach a crucial tipping point. Where did these traits come from? Are they part of our species immutable destiny? Or is there hope for our species’ future if we change? With his eye for detail and his unparalleled readability, Diamond addresses today’s young people who will inherit this world. The Third Chimpanzee for Young People is for them and the future they’ll help build. JARED DIAMOND is professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published over 200 articles in Discover, Natural History, Nature, and Geo magazines. He is the author of several books, including, Guns, Germs and Steel, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and has sold over 1.5 million copies; the international bestseller Collapse; and the recently published The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

may 19, 2015 paperback • $17.95 5.5" x 8" • 368 pages 978-1-60980-611-8 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-523-4

Praise for the adult edition of The Third Chimpanzee: “Written with great wit and a pleasure to read . . . forces one to reflect thoroughly on the puzzle of human evolution, on where we came from and where we may be heading.” —Frans B. M. De Waal in the New York Times “This informative, most fascinating, and very readable book is highly recommended for all libraries.” —Library Journal

• Promotion at BEA and ALA • Featured title at NCSS, NCTE, and NSTA conferences

The Mummy-Makers of Egypt Ta m a r a B ow e r

A gorgeous tale about a family of Egyptian embalmers with lush illustrations in the Egyptian style. From artist and Egypt specialist Tamara Bower comes her third, gorgeous book about ancient Egypt. Using the classic style of Egyptian art, the book is painstakingly accurate in facts and illustrative style. Artifacts, funerary customs, hieroglyphs, and details of life in ancient Egypt are told through the eyes of Ipy, whose father is embalmer to the King. Yuya, father of the Queen, has died and Ipy must help his father in the mummification process. Yuya is a real mummy and the actual discovery of his tomb in the Valley of the Kings was a spectacular find—overshadowed only by the later discovery of King Tut, Yuya’s great-grandson. The book features sidebars on hieroglyphs and their meanings, a map, and an afterword telling more about the life of Yuya, the burial process, and ancient Egypt in general. While there are a number of children’s books on mummies, none are told from the point of view of the embalmers, and none are written and illustrated with the meticulousness of Tamara Bower. Fascinated by ancient Egypt since she was a child, TAMARA BOWER was trained in archaeological illustration at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked as a staff illustrator in the Department of Egyptian Art. She has worked as the technical illustrator for archaeological digs in Egypt, Turkey, Spain, Belize, and California. Her two previous children’s books about ancient Egypt are The Shipwrecked Sailor (2000) and How the Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt (2005)—which won the ALA Amelia Bloomer Award for Nonfiction Picture Books, the Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award, and the Africana Book Award for Young Children. Bower lives in New York City.

july 14, 2015 hardcover • $17.95 11" x 9.5" • 32 pages 978-1-60980-600-2 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-601-9

Praise for How The Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt: “A rare tale, as enjoyable for its authoritative, scholarly appurtenance as for its vivid retelling.” —Kirkus Reviews “For story and drama, look to How The Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt.” —Meg Wolitzer, The New York Times • An afterword with historical details about mummification, life in ancient Egypt, and the discovery of the tomb of Yuya—for teachers and parents • Bower’s previous book, How the Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt, won the ALA Amelia Bloomer Award for Nonfiction Picture Book • Author readings and school visits in New York, Boston, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia • Featured title at NCTE and NCSS and at ABA’s Children’s Institute

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The Islamist Phoenix

The Islamic State and the Redrawing of the Middle East

L or e t ta N a p ol e on i

“A vital contribution to our understanding of what is happening in the Middle East.”—Chris Hedges, former Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times A timely, piercing study of the Islamic State. From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State has grown into a massive enterprise, redrawing national borders across the Middle East. In The Islamist Phoenix, world-renowned terrorism expert Loretta Napoleoni takes us beyond the headlines, demonstrating that while Western media portrays the Islamic State as little more than a gang of thugs on a winning streak, the organization is proposing a new model of nation building. Waging a traditional war of conquest to carve out the 21st-century version of the original Caliphate, IS uses modern technology to recruit and fundraise while engaging the local population in the dayto-day running of the new state. Rising from the ashes of failed jihadist enterprises, the Islamic State has shown a deep understanding of Middle Eastern politics, fully exploiting proxy war and shell-state tactics. This is not another terror network but a formidable enemy in tune with the new modernity of the current world disorder. LORETTA NAPOLEONI is the author of international bestsellers Rogue Economics and Terror Incorporated. As Chairman of the Countering Terrorism Financing Group for the Club de Madrid, she brought heads of state together to combat the financing of terror networks. She has worked as London correspondent for La Stampa, La Repubblica, and El País. A Fulbright scholar, she holds an MA in international relations and economics from Johns Hopkins University, and an MPhil in terrorism from the London School of Economics, and has traveled regularly to Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries. She lives in London and Montana. Just released! paperback • $11.95 5" x 7" • 160 pages 978-1-60980-628-6 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-629-3

“The Islamist Phoenix replaces hysteria with illuminating and often wise analysis in understanding the ISIL phenomenon sweeping much of the Middle East.” —John Pilger “The Islamist Phoenix is a great entry point for those in want of a more solid understanding of the history and social complexities involved in the rise of the Islamic State” —Chelsea Manning “Clear, concise, and unequivocal. ” —Michael Chandler, co-author of Countering Terrorism

My Florence

A 70-Year Love Story

A rt Sh ay

My Florence is a collection of striking moments drawn from the shared life of renowned Chicago photojournalist Art Shay and his beloved wife, Florence. By turns casual and glamorous, pensive and humorous, the photographs start the day Art and Florence met in 1942, as twenty-year-old camp counselors in the Catskill Mountains, and continue for seven decades. Former LIFE, Fortune, Time, and Sports Illustrator photographer, Shay is famous for immortalizing some of America’s most compelling 20th century figures, including John F. Kennedy Jr., Muhammad Ali, and Eleanor Roosevelt. But the story of Florence was Shay’s constant beat. The result is a story that runs deep and reads as a call to joy and source of inspiration for lovers, family, friends, and the photographer in us all. After flying fifty-three combat missions in World War II, ART SHAY joined LIFE magazine as a staff reporter before leaving in 1951 to become one of American’s leading photojournalists. His pictures regularly appeared in LIFE, Fortune, Time, and Sports Illustrated among many other magazines. Several have been singled out as among the most enduring American photographs ever taken.

February 3, 2015 paperback • $14.95 7" x 7" • 96 pages 978-1-60980-624-8 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-625-5

“Florence Shay was a force to be reckoned with, a marvelous, witty, beautiful and well-read lady whose husband Art loved her very much and took some pictures of her that pierce my heart: there she is, glorious Florence. I miss her (and her bookshop, too). Art Shay’s photographs bring us into their family, so immediately and warmly that it is a little shocking and quite wonderful.” —Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife

• Major author events in Chicago including the Harold Washington Public Library • My Florence photography exhibitions in Chicago and Philadelphia • National media coverage

13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty M a r io m a r a zz i t i a f ter word by Pau l e l i e

The book you have to read on the death penalty. Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of “justice” that disproportionately affects religious, social, and racial minorities. It is a sanction that cannot be fixed if unjustly applied. Yet the United States—along with countries notorious for human rights abuse— remains an advocate for the death penalty. In these thirteen pieces, Mario Marazziti exposes the profound inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty in this country, and urges us to join virtually every other industrialized democracy in rendering capital punishment an abandoned practice belonging to a crueler time in human history. A polemical book, yes, yet one that brings together a wide range of stories to compel the heart as well the mind. mario marazziti co-founded the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002. He is the longtime spokesperson for the Community of Sant’Egidio, a Rome-based progressive Catholic NGO. In 2012 he was elected to the lower house of parliament in Italy, where he pursues a broad human-rights portfolio. He lives in Rome. paul elie is the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own (2003) and Reinventing Bach (2012), both National Book Critics Circle Award finalists, and a contributor to The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times Book Review. A senior fellow in Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, he posts pieces daily to everythingthatrises.com. march 24, 2015 hardcover • $18.95 5" x 7" • 240 pages 978-1-60980-567-8 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-568-5

Compañeras

Zapatista Women’s Stories

H i l a ry K l e i n

Guerrilla army insurgents. Political leaders. Health and education promoters. Economic cooperatives members. These are just some of the prominent, everyday roles held by women in the Zapatista autonomous region in Chiapas, where the creation and maintenance of an alternative, democratic society has found women’s participation indispensible. Compañeras: Zapatistas Stories is the untold story of the women of the Zapatista movement. Gathered by longtime community organizer Hilary Klein, the Zapatista women’s own recollections of their lives, struggles, and critical involvement brings to light the tremendous transformation of gender roles that has occurred in this culture of revolution, and is instructive for all who are committed to examining how existing grassroots alternatives to global capitalism can guide the way toward justice, equality, and democracy. hilary klein has been engaged in social justice and community organizing for twenty years. She spent six years in Chiapas, Mexico, working with women’s projects in Zapatista communities. She currently works at Make the Road New York, a membership-based community organization that works with immigrant and working-class communities to achieve dignity and justice. Hilary is originally from Washington, DC, and currently lives in New York, NY. Compañeras is her first book.

february 24, 2015 TR • $19.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 384 pages 978-1-60980-587-6 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-588-3

“Compañeras is an essential book for us to understand and learn from the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and no one is more qualified to write that book than Hilary Klein. This is the first book on the Maya women’s leadership and participation, which has formed this uniquely powerful and persistent movement.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie “Hilary’s years of commitment, depth of relationship with Zapatista women, and history of writing about Chiapas make her the ideal person to write this book.” —Peter Rosset, author of Food Is Different: Why the WTO Should Get out of Agriculture • Events to coincide with anniversary of the Zapatista uprising (January 1994) • Academic potential with Mexican Studies and Women’s Studies programs

World Report 2015 Events of 2014

h u m a n r igh t s wat ch

The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories is put into perspective in Human Rights Watch’s signature yearly report, which, in the 2014 volume, highlighted the armed conflict in Syria, international drug reform, drones and electronic mass surveillance, and more, and also featured photo-essays of child marriage in South Sudan, the cost of the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia, and religious fighting in Central African Republic. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2014 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights, and operates in more than eighty countries. Its annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere. KENNETH ROTH is the executive director of Human Rights Watch. He has conducted numerous human rights investigations and missions around the world.

FEBRUARY 24, 2015 paperback • $32.00 6" x 9" • 656 pages 978-1-60980-581-4 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-582-1

“A wonderful report. An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to dominate.” —Simon Jenkins, former editor of the Times (London)

“The reports of the New York–based Human Rights Watch (HRW) have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses in the country.”—Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books • International press conferences in New York and Washington, DC, at publication • National radio tour with Executive Director Kenneth Roth

Ma, It’s a Cold Aul Night an I’m Lookin for a Bed M a rt h a L ong

The third Ma volume brings readers on the journey of Martha’s first months of freedom in Dublin after leaving the convent where she has spent her early adolescence. In this latest installment of Martha Long’s bestselling memoir series of growing up in Dublin, her time at the convent school is up. She is finally sixteen years old—the age she’d long dreamed of as the great doorway to freedom from the cruel whims of adults. With no friends, family, or safety net, Martha is indeed free now, but alone and vulnerable. Trained by the nuns to work as a domestic, she carries her entire world in one suitcase and finds a place as a skivvy—but in what turns out to be a miserable house. Soon she’ll hit the streets again, where on the edge of homelessness she’ll still burn “to be somebody.” Martha survives on little else than her grit and, as ever, on the momentum of her indomitable spirit which fills these pages. Born in Dublin in the 1950s, martha long’s seven Ma books, which recount her life from decade to decade, have all been bestsellers in the UK and #1 bestsellers in Ireland. Her fiction debut Run, Lily, Run was released by Random House UK in 2014. Though beloved around the world as the stalwart child and then young woman of her books, Long now calls herself a middle-aged matron and adds, with evident pride, that she has successfully reared her three children and still lives in Dublin.

march 24, 2015 hardcover • $24.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 352 pages 978-1-60980-598-2 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-599-9

“Long’s story is a gritty, grueling, and heartbreaking testament to one girl’s unbreakable spirit.” —Publishers Weekly “Stands head and shoulders above everything else in the category. It is a remarkable true story, imparted in a remarkable voice.” —Irish Independent “Long’s story is unique in its rawness and its honesty. Entirely self-educated, she narrates her own life in a way which is both riveting and moving.” —Greenock Telegraph • Author tour to Boston, New York, and Chicago • Book giveaway on Irish Arts Center Book Day

Ma, I’m Getting Meself a New Mammy

A Memoir of Dublin at the Turn of the 1960s

M a rt h a L ong

The second of the seven bestselling volumes of Long’s wrenching memoir of her 1950s Dublin childhood—filled with grief, leavened with mischief, sparkling with indomitable spirit. After numerous arrests for shoplifting, Martha is sent to the convent where, the judge rules, she is to get an education. Martha is relieved to be out of the clutches of her horrible drunken stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally, but anxious about what awaits her. Her days in the convent are steady, predictable, safe—everything that her life had not been prior to being sent away. But as she says, “You can have a full belly, but your heart can be very empty.” Put to back-breaking work by the nuns, and treated cruelly by the other children—they’ve marked her as a “street kid”—Martha works hard, keeps to herself, and steals away when she can with a cherished book. But Martha pines for simple affection, keeping after the Sisters day after day with the hope of an arm laid across her shoulders or a tender look. When her siblings arrive at the convent—taken from their mother by the court—Martha is thrilled to again be with family and care for the babies. But then Sally and Jackser arrive to take the children home and beg Martha to return and help care for the kids. Martha makes a wrenching decision to stay behind, knowing, with an unnatural foresight for such a young girl, that otherwise they will be the death of her. She must find her own way. She is thirteen.

march 24, 2015 trade paperback • $14.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 344 pages 978-1-60980-614-9 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-502-9

READ THEM ALL! Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes, the first of Martha Long’s Ma books, is available in hardcover, paperback, and e-book editions. When Martha Long’s feckless mother hooks up with Jackser the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is regularly sent out to beg and more often steal. Then Martha is sent by Jackser to a man he knows in exchange for the price of a few cigarettes. She is nine. She is filthy, lice ridden, outcast. Martha’s hope is that she will soon be old enough to make her own way. hardcover • $26.95 • 978-1-60980-414-5 Paperback • $16.95 • 978-1-60980-503-6 e-book • $16.95 •978-1-60980-415-2

Listen, Yankee! Why Cuba Matters

T om H ay de n based on conversat ions w it h

R ic a r d o A l a rcón

Based on unprecedented access to both Cuban and American officials, a book that offers fresh insight into one of history’s most enigmatic relationships between nation states—from one of America’s best-known voices of political and social activism. Listen, Yankee! offers an account of Cuban politics from Tom Hayden’s unique position as an observer of Cuba and as a US revolutionary student leader whose efforts to mobilize political change in the US mirrored the radical transformation simultaneously going on in Cuba. Chapters are devoted to the writings of Che Guevara, Regis Debray, and C. Wright Mills; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Weather Underground; the assassination of JFK; the strong historical links between Cuba and Africa; the Carter era; the Clinton era; Cuban 5; and Elian Gonzalez. Perhaps most importantly, Hayden puts the present moment into historical context, and shows how we’re finally finding common ground to the advantage of Cubans and Americans alike. Author of the famed Port Huron Statement, tom hayden was a leader in the student, antiwar, and civil rights protests in the 1960s. He took up the environmental cause in the 1970s, leading campaigns to shut down nuclear power plants and serving as California’s first solar energy official. He was elected to the California legislature in 1982, serving for eighteen years. He continues to write as an editor of The Nation, and has taught at many campuses from Harvard’s Institute of Politics to UCLA’s labor studies center. He is the director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in California. march 17, 2015 hardcover • $24.95 5.75" x 8.75" • 320 pages 978-1-60980-596-8 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-597-5

ricardo alarcón de Quesada is a Cuban statesman and revolutionary. A member of the 26th of July Movement who joined the Cuban Revolution as a student organizer, he later served as president of Cuba’s National Assembly and as Cuba’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, where he remained for nearly 30 years. From 1992 to 1993 he served as Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs.

• Author events in Los Angeles (LA Times Book Fest), San Francisco, Miami, New York, and Washington, DC • National media coverage

The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea The World of Slavery at Sea

Pru m Va n n a k as told to Be n a nd Jo ce ly n Pe de r ick

The painstakingly beautiful graphic memoir of a Cambodian man held hostage for years on a fishing vessel—the first ever from a survivor. Too poor to pay his pregnant wife’s hospital bill, Prum Vannak left his village in Cambodia to seek work in Thailand. Men who appeared to be employers on a fishing vessel promised to return him home after a few months at sea, but instead Vannak was held hostage on the vessel for four years’ hard labor. Amid violence and cruelty, including frequent beheadings, Vannak survived in large part by honing his ability to tattoo his shipmates—a skill he possessed despite never having been trained in art nor having had access to art supplies while growing up. As a means of escape, Vannak and a friend jumped into the water and, hugging empty fish-sauce containers because they could not swim, reached Malaysia in the dark of night. At the harbor, they were taken into a police station, then sold by their rescuers to work on a plantation. Vannak was kept as a laborer for over a year before an NGO could secure his return to Cambodia. After five years away, Vannak was finally reunited with his family. Vannak documents his ordeal in raw, colorful, detailed illustrations, first created because he believed that without them no one would believe his story. Indeed, very little is known about what happens to the men and boys who end up working on fishing boats in Asia, and these images are some of the first records. The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea is a testament to the lives of these many fishermen who are trapped on boats in the Indian Ocean.

August 4, 2015 hardcover • $24.95 9.5" x 7" • 176 pages 978-1-60980-602-6 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-603-3

â&#x20AC;˘ Author presented with the 2012 State Department Human Rights Defender Award from US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton â&#x20AC;˘ Promotion with human rights organizations

PRUM VANNAK is a Cambodian survivor of human trafficking. While looking for work on the Thai border, he was detained as a slave on a fishing boat for four years until he escaped by literally jumping ship. His rescuers on the Malaysian coast sold him to a plantation, where he labored for another year before an NGO helped him return to his family. Upon his return, he drew pictures of what he remembered in order to prove and explain his whereabouts during his hellish years as a modern-day slave. Though he never had any formal education or training in art, Vannak had long loved drawingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;first in the dirt, then on wooden boards with dried clay, until one day in his youth when a Vietnamese soldier gave him paper and pencils. He was awarded the 2012 State Department Human Rights Defender Award from US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.

The Emperor, C’est Moi H UG O HOR IO T

Tra nsl ated f rom t he Frenc h by L I N DA CO V E R DA L E Wit h a post face by F r a nçoi se L e f è v r e

My name is Julien. Julien Hugo Sylvestre Horiot, but I’m called Julien. I am four. I am very well behaved. Too well behaved. When something doesn’t please me, I get angry. Too angry. I scream. I scream, but without words. I do not speak. Hugo Horiot is in love with wheels and all that cranks or turns. He is obsessed with the otherworldly language of pipes—they run, he imagines, from his family home to the center of the earth. He causes endless trouble at home and hates school. He muses: “I dream asleep, I dream awake”—but he dreams so hard he shuts out the world with reveries that are not just curious but dangerous and painful too. School is a prison he must escape, his teachers oppressors, and his classmates “a band of jolly torturers.” This is the portrait of a boy who might happen to suffer from autism, but who is also a beautiful rebel inspired to blaze his own path through childhood, in all its wonders and shadows of doubt, to find an enduring sense of personal freedom. After a childhood spent struggling with his autism, hugo horiot began at last to speak when he discovered a love of the stage. He was admitted in 2005 to the prestigious theater academy, Theatre du Jour, in Agen, where he thrived under the tutelege of legendary French actor and director Pierre Debauche. Today an accomplished actor and director himself, Horiot is also an award-winning writer—The Emperor, C’est Moi was awarded the 2013 Prix “Paroles de patients” in France, an award that honors writing on illness and healing. In 1991, Françoise Lefèvre, Horiot’s adoring mother, had published a book titled Le petit prince cannibale, about his autistic childhood and the way she helped him to grow up. It won her the Prix “Goncourt des lycéens.” Horiot lives in Paris. april 28, 2015 Hardcover • $21.95 5" x 8" • 160 pages 978-1-60980-612-5 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-613-2

“Haunting, original, dazzling in its mixture of fancy and specificity, a welcome addition to memory and understanding . . .” —Tim Page, author of Parallel Play “An exceptional testimony.”—Le Soir “The journey of a child who managed to escape from the prison of his dreams, and turn it into a work of art.”—Le Figaro “A beautiful book that grants us entry to a strange and sometimes frightening world.” —Brigitte Axelrad, Sciences & Pseudosciences

Return to Sender

Unanswered Letters to the President, 2003-2015

R a l ph n a de r

The prescient but ignored letters of warning and advice sent to Presidents Bush and Obama by Ralph Nader, America’s first citizen. In letters addressed to Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama, Ralph Nader provides incisive critiques of more than a decade of American policy decision and indecision. With his signature dry wit, Nader holds these presidents to their campaign promises. He also boldly points to the ignoble and sometimes heinous decisions made in pursuit of party platforms and misguided policies. Covering a range of topics—the Iraq War, torture, the Crimean annexation, the minimum wage, worker’s health legislation, and corporatism, to name a few—these letters were ignored by the president who received them. Here they are reproduced to reclaim the spirit of a true and healthy democracy. America’s first citizen, RALPH NADER is a lawyer and author who has saved countless lives and cofounded numerous public interest groups including Public Citizen, the Center for Auto Safety, the Disability Rights Center, the Pension Rights Center, and the Center for Study of Responsive Law. He is credited with having passed more major legislation in the twentieth century than all but three US Presidents. For the past forty-five years he has challenged abuses by corporate and government officials and has urged citizens to use their time, energy, and democratic rights to demand greater institutional accountability. In 1965, Nader’s landmark book Unsafe at Any Speed changed the face of the automobile industry. The Atlantic has named him as one of the 100 most influential figures in American history, and Time and Life magazines have honored him as one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century. As a result of his efforts, cars are safer, food is healthier, our environment is less polluted, and our democracy is more robust. April 7, 2015 hardcover • $21.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 240 pages 978-1-60980-626-2 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-627-9

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Congress and the Shaping of the Middle East K i r k j. be at t i e

The upside-down logic of US policy in the Middle East is one of the great foreign policy conundrums today precisely because it touches on so many different problematic areas. The March 2006 article by Walt and Meersheimer that appeared under the title The Israel Lobby in the London Review of Books, and the bestselling book that followed, attributed our pro-Israel policy to the power of the lobby itself. Others, including Chomsky, have criticized this approach as overly simplistic. Longtime Middle East watcher Professor Kirk Beattie seeks to arrive at a deeper understanding by looking closely at the inner workings of Congress. Beattie analyzes staffing, campaign funding, bipartisan alliances within the Senate and the House, and the agenda-driven allocation of foreign aid. He addresses the many internal and external pressures that impact such processes. His findings, based on interviews with members of Congress and their staff and years of research, are laid out in straight-talking prose that untangles the complexity of the issue. kirk j. beattie is the author of two books on Egyptian politics: Egypt During the Nasser Years and Egypt During the Sadat Years. A professor at Simmons College in the Political Science and International Relations Department, specializing in comparative politics with regional expertise in Middle East and West European politics, Beattie has taught at Harvard, Wellesley, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the University of Michigan. He is a recipient of a Fulbright grant, a Fulbright-Hays grant, an American Research Center in Egypt grant, and a Center for Arabic Study Abroad fellowship. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin.

june 9, 2015 Hardcover â&#x20AC;˘ $30.00 6" x 9" â&#x20AC;˘ 320 pages 978-1-60980-561-6 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-562-3

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My Depression A Picture Book

e l i z a be t h s wa d os A funny book about depression that gives you the tools you need to overcome it. This intimate journey through long-term depression is by turns tender, funny, poignant, and uplifting. Swados’s words and simple drawings bring home the experience of severe depression, from the black cloud forming on the horizon to feelings of self-loathing and loss of self-confidence; from contemplating suicide, which Swados describes as wandering off into the Sahara Desert (discounting the buzzards and the scorpions) to actively seeking out methods for fighting depression—including psychics, diet, and repression therapy—to experimenting with antidepressants that make you snippy, sleepy, or judgmental. My Depression is an engaging and heartening memoir that shows how it is possible to survive depression, one little challenge at a time, with medication and the occasional tasty, messy slice of pizza; with dancing to a boombox on the street and thanking the mailman for the newest catalogue, then proceeding to read it cover to cover! Musical artist ELIZABETH SWADOS is the author of six children’s books, three novels, and one collection of poetry. She has composed, written, and directed theater for over thirty years and is perhaps best known for her Broadway and international hit Runaways. Her works include the Obie Award–winning Trilogy at La Mama and Alice at the Palace with Meryl Streep at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Swados teaches in the drama department at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and at The New School’s Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts as a visiting artist. Her articles have been published in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, and Vogue. Her other awards include five Tony nominations, three Obie Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ford Fellowship, Helen Hayes Award, Lila Acheson Wallace Award, and a Special International PEN Citation. April 21, 2015 paperback • $16.95 6" x 8" • 176 pages 978-1-60980-604-0 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-550-0

A startling, honest . . . surprisingly charming, funny, and poignant illustrated memoir. —Time Out New York “You wouldn’t think a memoir about clinical depression would be inspiring—but Swados, a musician and theater director, relates her battle against her demons with such candor and simplicity, and with such winsome illustrations, that it’s empowering. Swados lifts the stigma to help the reader find solutions, and hope.” —Reader’s Digest • An animated film based on the book and featuring the voices of Steve Buscemi, Sigourney Weaver, and Fred Armisen will premiere on HBO in 2015

Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind A Novel

A N N E ROI PH E

A new novel from the author of the national bestseller and feminist classic, Up the Sandbox. Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind weaves stories of psychoanaylsts and their patients against the bright-lights backdrop of their relentless city, New York. Anne Roiphe’s characters are cutters and thieves, disappointed and disappointing children, the sexually confused, true and false friends. Dr. Estelle Berman is a distinguished psychiatrist who lives and practices on the Upper West Side. She observes her own decline with much the same acceptance with which she observes the idiosyncrasies of her patients, some of whom she likes more than others. Her patients are Justine, the movie star, and the daughter of a colleague; Edith, who is very large and writes poems; and Anna, a college student whose parents are both well-published academics, who cuts herself. And there is her own son Gerald, who has never been close to Estelle. And now there is his son, Ryan, who is the first to understand that there is something wrong with the doctor herself. Writer, essayist, and journalist ANNE ROIPHE is known and revered for such novels as Up the Sandbox, 1185 Park Avenue, and Lovingkindness, and for her memoirs: Art and Madness and Epilogue. In addition to her eighteen fiction and nonfiction books, she has written articles for The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Elle, among others, and for many years she wrote columns for The New York Observer and The Jerusalem Report. Her book Fruitful was a finalist for the National Book Award. may 12, 2015 hardcover • $23.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 240 pages 978-1-60980-608-8 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-609-5

“Ms. Roiphe is sharply perceptive about the flesh-and-blood people around her. And she is witty about the ones who live in her imagination.” —The New York Times “In laying bare some tribal mores of life and work in a tight-knit psychoanalytic community, Anne Roiphe soon comes upon her real subject, the thwarted love between parents and children, caught between hope and disappointment, a prey to neglect, misunderstanding, and helpless apprehension. Her writing is alive with unsparing insight and keen feeling.” —Morris Dickstein, author of Gates of Eden and Dancing in the Dark • Author awarded the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award for Literary Arts from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture in 2004 • Author events in concert with the Jewish Book Council

The Body Where I Was Born GUA DA LU PE N E T T E L

Tra nsl ated f rom t he Spa nish by

J. T. L ICH T E N S T E I N

The novel of an unconventional childhood by one of the most talkedabout writers of new Mexican fiction, winner of the 2014 Herralde Novel Award. From a psychoanalyst’s couch the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood—in which she was born with an eye defect into a family intent on fixing it—having somehow survived the emotional havoc she went through. And survive she did, but not unscathed. The intimate account echoes the voice of the narrator’s younger self, a sharp, sensitive girl infinitely more damaged by the deformities life has inflicted upon her than by her birth defect. Set in the seventies, The Body Where I Was Born explores the narrator’s memories of her parents’ open marriage, of watching a girl commit suicide, of her literary and sexual awakening, and takes the reader down her winding path of self-acceptance. With bare language and smart humor, both delicate and unafraid, Guadalupe Nettel strings together a string of touching, sometimes painful, sometimes delightful moments in an unconventional childhood that scarred her, mended her, tore her apart, and finally made her whole. In June 2013, Granta featured GUADALUPE NETTEL in their “Best Untranslated Writers” series. Natural Histories (Seven Stories Press 2014), for which she won the 2013 Ribera del Duero Short Fiction Award, and The Body Where I Was Born are her first books to be published in English. Nettel’s work has received international critical acclaim and awards. Her books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, and Swedish. In October 2014, she won the Herralde Prize for her latest novel, Despues del invierno.

june 2, 2015 Hardcover • $22.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 176 pages 978-1-60980-526-5 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-527-2

“It has been a long time since I’ve found in the literature of my generation a world as personal and untransferable as that of Guadalupe Nettel.” —Juan Gabriel Vásquez “Guadalupe Nettel reveals the subliminal beauty within beings of odd behavior and painstakingly examines the intimacies of her soul.” —Magazine Littéraire “The gaze Nettel turns on madness both temperate and destructive, on manias, on deviances, is so sharp that it has us seeing straight into our own obsessions.” —Le Monde “Guadalupe Nettel creates a universe where Roberto Bolaño’s visceral poets rub shoulders with the fragile but unbreakable women of Haruki Murakami.” —Juan Ignacio Boido 49

From The Body Where I was Born

I was born with a birthmark, a white spot on the cornea of my right eye. That spot would have been nothing had it not stretched across my iris and over the pupil through which light must pass to reach the back of the brain. They didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t perform cornea transplants on newborns in those days; the spot was doomed to remain for several years. And in the same way an unventilated tunnel slowly fills with mold, the pupillary blockage led to the growth of a cataract. The only advice the doctors could give my parents was to wait: by the time their daughter finished growing up, medicine would surely have advanced enough to offer a solution. In the meantime, they advised subjecting me to a series of annoying exercises to develop, as much as possible, the defective eye. This was done with ocular movements similar to those Aldous Huxley

suggests in The Art of Seeing, but also—and this I remember most—with a patch that covered my left eye for half the day. It was a piece of flesh-colored cloth with sticky, adhesive edges, and it covered my upper eyelid down to the top of my cheekbone. At first glance, it looked like I had no eye, only a smooth surface there. Wearing the patch felt unfair and oppressive. It was hard to let them put it on me every morning and to accept that no amount of hiding or crying could save me from that torture. I don’t think there was a single day I didn’t resist. It would have been so easy to wait until they left me at the school entrance to yank the patch off with the same careless gesture I used back then to tear a scab off my knee. But for some reason I still can’t understand, I never tried to remove it.

Natural Histories

Gua da lu pe N e t t e l Tra nsl ated f rom t he Spa nish by

J. T. L ich t e n s t e i n

The English-language debut of one of Latin America’s most talkedabout new writers. These five dark and delicately written stories unfold in fragile worlds where animal behaviors parallel the ways in which human beings interact with one another and react to their environments. Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, a cat, a snake, and a strange fungus are mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce as it battles with the desire not to, and the inexplicable connections that bind, eerily, beings together. “Five flawless stories . . . Nettel creates marvelous parallels between the sorrows and follies of her human characters and the creatures they live with.” —Carmela Ciuraru, The New York Times “These stories are an interesting, arresting study of how their lives mirror our own.” —Gretchen Wagner, San Francisco Book Review

june 2, 2015 paperback • $12.95 5" x 8" • 128 pages 978-1-60980-605-7 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-552-4

“Beautifully translated from the Spanish by J. T. Lichtenstein Natural Histories delivers everything you want from a short story collection. Guadalupe Nettel’s storytelling power is majestic. With an unflinching eye, time and time again, she drives readers on an exploratory safari into the heart of human nature. Funny, touching, terrifying, horrific and/or sad— you never know what you’ll find when you tentatively set out in search of potential dangers, but one thing is abundantly clear: safe in her skilled hands, each journey holds the promise of being a life changing event.” —Typographical Era

Minecraft, 2nd Edition

The Unlikely Tale of Markus “Notch” Persson and the Game That Changed Everything

Da n i e l G ol dbe rg

a nd L i n us L a r s son Tra nsl ated f rom t he Swed ish by J e n n i f e r H aw k i n s

New Expanded Edition The expanded edition of the bestselling tale of a little game that shook the international gaming world, and the personal history of the eccentric man behind it. His whole life all Markus Persson wanted to do was to create his own games. Create his own games and get rich. Then in 2009 Markus created a small, strange little game that quickly became a worldwide phenomenon and in just a few short years turned its maker into an international icon. Minecraft is a Cinderella story for the Internet Age—improbable success, fast money, and the power of digital technology to shake up a rock-solid industry. It’s a story about being lost and finding your way, of breaking the rules and swimming against the current. It’s about how a little indie gaming company called Mojang rattled the foundations of the corporate gaming world. But above all this is the story of how creative genius chased down a crazy dream, the evolution of a shy amateur programmer into a video game god. This second edition includes three completely new chapters and covers the news that shocked the world—Microsoft’s late 2014 multi-billion dollar acquistion of Mojang.

june 16, 2015 hardcover • $23.95 5.25" x 7" • 304 pages 978-1-60980-575-3 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-538-8

Minecraft is now in its 6th printing with over 40,000 copies in print!

• Authors featured at ALA Winter Institute • Authors’ new book The State of Play: Words from the Cutting Edge of Video Game Culture featuring new writing by Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn, Anna Anthropy, Ian Bogost, Dan Golding, Leigh Alexander, Evan Narcisse, and many others, coming Fall 2015

LINUS LARSSON and DANIEL GOLDBERG are two of Swedenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best-known writers on new technology and the Internet. They have been published in the Washington Post and American Computer World, among other publications, and quoted by BBC News, The New York Times, and The Sydney Morning Herald. Their first book, Swedish Hackers, was published in 2011 in Sweden. Minecraft followed in Sweden and marked their English-language debut in November 2013.

“Minecraft is indeed an unlikely tale. That is what makes it so great, and that is why this little book will make a terrific gift for the gamer in your life.” —Salon “Pulls itself along with the narrative compulsion of a tech biography . . . outlines a cultural phenomenon in ways that even those who’ve missed out up ’til now can understand.” —The Stranger “Explores the man behind the game to a depth that you won’t, and that you can’t find anywhere else.” —SethBling, Minecraft videomaker “A fascinating and honest peek into the mind of the man who made Minecraft a reality.” —Joel Levin, MinecraftEdu co-creator “An incredible read that details the rise of Minecraft, Notch, and his amazing team. Interesting and intense, it is a must for any gamer or fan of riveting nonfiction.” —Book Riot, “Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in September”

Thony Belizaire, Witness to History 100 Photographs of the Struggle for Democracy in Haiti

T hon y Be l i z a i r e ed ited w it h a foreword by r aou l pe ck A bi l ing u a l ed it ion in Eng l ish a nd Frenc h

A photographic history of one nation’s metamorphosis from totalitarianism toward democracy. From bloodshed on the Ruelle Vaillant in November 1987, as the first presidential elections ended, to the bloody coup d’état by the army against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in September 1991; from the antigovernment protests of November 2002, to the violent earthquake that hit the Haitian capital in January 2010, leaving in its wake over 250,000 dead and a million homeless; —these are just a few of the images of devastation and endurance in Thony Belizaire—one man with a camera covering a small nation and a world of trouble. The photographs collected in Thony Belizaire are notable, as Raoul Peck notes in his foreword, “for their violence, their realism, their poetry.” These 100 fullcolor images are joined here by accompanying text the author was writing for this book right up to his untimely death. Legendary Agence France Press photographer thony belizaire was honored at the first Biennale Internationale d’Art Contemporain de la Martinique as one of Latin America’s and the Caribbean’s greatest photographers. In July 2006, he won the United Nation Population Fund’s environmental photography competition. His photographs have been published widely in magazines, books, and newspapers, where they often accompanied front-page coverage of news from Haiti. He passed away from cancer in Port-au-Prince on July 21, 2013. June 23, 2015 hardcover • $39.95 7.5" x 9.75" • 192 pages 978-1-60980-585-2 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-586-9

Haitian filmmaker and former minister of culture raoul peck’s lauded feature films, including Lumumba, and documentaries exploring internationalist themes of inequality. In 2001, he received the Human Rights Watch Lifetime Achievement Award. Peck’s most recent film is Murder in Pacot. Peck lives in Paris and Haiti.

“Mr. Belizaire devoted more than thirty years of his life to covering the major social, political, and cultural events in the life of the Haitian people. . . . He was a profound influence on Haitian photographers, particularly photojournalists.” —Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe • Promotion at ALA and BEA

From the Third Eye

The Evergreen Review Film Reader

E d H a lt e r

a nd B a r n e y Ros se t Wit h B &W photos a nd i l lust rat ions

Featuring Norman Mailer, Amos Vogel, Nat Hentoff, Parker Tyler, and many others, on pornography, censorship, and the rise of underground and experimental cinema. In this first collection of film writing from the Evergreen Review, the legendary publication’s important contributions to film culture include writings on the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ousmane Sembène, Andy Warhol, and others, and offers incisive essays and interviews from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Articles explore politics, revolution, and the cinema; underground and experimental film, pornography, and censorship; and the rise of independent film in the midst of the dominance of Hollywood. A new introductory essay by Ed Halter reveals the important role that the Evergreen Review and its publisher, Barney Rosset of Grove Press, played in advancing cinema during this period through innovations in production, distribution, and exhibition. ED HALTER is a critic and curator living in New York City. He is a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York, and his writing has appeared in Artforum, The Believer, Bookforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, Little Joe, Mousse Rhizome, Triple Canopy, the Village Voice, and elsewhere. He is a 2009 recipient of the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. He teaches in the Film and the Electronic Arts department at Bard College, and is currently writing a critical history of contemporary experimental cinema in America.

july 7, 2015 paperback • $24.95 6.75" x 9.25" • 586 pages 978-1-60980-615-6 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-616-3

BARNEY ROSSET (1922â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2012) was the former owner of the publishing house Grove Press, and publisher and editor in chief of the Evergreen Review. He led several successful legal battles all the way to the Supreme Court against censorship in landmark rulings for free speech and the First Amendment.

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A History of Marriage

From Same Sex Unions to Private Vows and Common Law, the Surprising Diversity of a Tradition

E l i z a be t h A bb o t t

Now in Paperback! “Captures the diversity of experiences even among families that superficially seem alike . . . Sure to provoke and surprise.” —The Globe and Mail “A rich tapestry and colorful snapshot of an evolving institution.” —Kirkus Reviews What does the “tradition of marriage” really look like? In A History of Marriage, Elizabeth Abbott paints a surprising picture of this most public, yet most intimate, institution. Ritual of romance or social obligation? Eternal bliss or cult of domesticity? Abbott reveals a complex tradition that includes same-sex unions, arranged marriages, dowries, self-marriages, and child brides. Marriage—in all its loving, unloving, decadent, and impoverished manifestations—is revealed here through Abbott’s infectious curiosity and deep learning. Historian ELIZABETH ABBOTT is the author of several books that include her historical relationship trilogy, the bestselling A History of Celibacy, A History of Mistresses, and A History of Marriage, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. Sugar: A Bittersweet History, inspired by her Antiguan heritage, was short-listed for the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary NonFiction. She lives in Toronto.

august 11, 2015 paperback • $22.95 6" x 9" • 496 pages 978-1-60980-619-4 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-085-7

“No thoughtful person—married, celibate, unfaithful or otherwise—should be without this book.” —Mark Kingwell, author of The World We Want “Deftly shows how this always fragile, yet always resilient institution has evolved. It is not always a pretty picture but it’s a fascinating one.” —Judith Timson, author of Family Matters “Elizabeth Abbott has penned a masterpiece . . . a wide-ranging account of how the social intersects with many forms of the personal.” —Ahmad Saidullah, author of Happiness and Other Disorders 63

Overpowered

What Science Tells Us about the Dangers of Cell Phones and Other Wifi-Age Devices

M a rt i n Bl a n k , Ph D

The first paperback edition of the leading book on the dangers of cell phones and other producers of electromagnetic field radiation. Keys, wallet, cell phone . . . ready to go! Cell phones have become ubiquitous fixtures of our lives. They are suctioned to our ears and stuck in our pockets. Yet, we’ve all heard whispers that these essential little devices give you brain cancer. Could it be true? In 2011, the World Health Organization shocked the international community by confirming that the radiation from cell phones is a possible carcinogen in humans. Most of us are left wondering, as Maureen Dowd asked in the New York Times, are cells the new cigarettes? Dr. Martin Blank notes that while the presumption of innocence is invaluable to the system of justice, it does not make sense as a public health standard. The biological effects resulting from low, non-thermal levels of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, which comes not only from cell phones, but also from other devices we use in our homes and offices every day, poses a substantial risk to our health and well-being. In this timely book, Dr. Blank arms us with the information we need to keep ourselves and our families safe. One of our nation’s most distinguished experts on the health-related effects of electromagnetic fields, DR. MARTIN BLANK has been studying the subject for more than thirty years. From 1968 to 2011, he taught as an Associate Lecturer at Columbia University, where he now acts as a special lecturer. He has served as the chairman of the Organic and Biological Division of the Electrochemical Society, as President of the Bioelectrochemical Society and as president of the Bioelectromagnetics Society. He has published more than 200 papers and reviews, and has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics, and Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine. august 18, 2015 trade paperback • $17.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 272 pages 978-1-60980-620-0 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-510-4

“From the personal, the political, and the planetary, you will never see things the same way again.” —B. Blake Levitt, former New York Times contributor and author of Electromagnetic Fields, A Consumer’s Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves “Overpowered reads like an environmental thriller! The sections on electricity, wildlife, and the ‘business’ of science all demonstrate the dark side of technology—an inconvenient truth we must consider.” —Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD “Martin Blank deals with a difficult subject in a scientifically accurate but easily readable fashion.” —David O. Carpenter, MD, Director, Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany 65

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If this isn’t nice, what is? Advice to the young Kurt Vonnegut selected and introduced by dan wakefield $17.95 • 256 pages hardcover • 978-1-60980-571-5

“Kurt Vonnegut’s crankiness is good-humored and sharpwitted.”—A. O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review In each of these speeches Vonnegut takes pains to find the few things worth saying and a conversational voice to say them in that isn’t heavy handed or pretentious or glib, but funny and serious and joyful even if sometimes without seeming so. The crocodiles A Novel youssef rakha translated by robin moger $17.95 • 256 pages trade paperback • 978-1-60980-571-5

“. . . brilliant . . .” —Library Journal

A ferocious and urgent novel of the Arab Spring that begins with a suicide and ends with a doomed revolution, covering sex, violence, metafiction, deception, lost youth, and the last thirty years of a living, culturally infested Cairo.

The jugheads A Novel j. r. helton $17.95 • 304 pages trade paperback • 978-1-60980-583-8

“J. R. Helton really speaks to me—starkly honest, darkly funny, acutely observant.” —Robert Crumb The acclaimed author of Drugs returns with more autofiction: a prequel to Drugs and a fearless exploration of the unique, horrifying dystopia of The American Family. 68

the up-down A Novel barry gifford $23.95 • 208 pages hardcover • 978-1-60980-577-7

“Gifford is a master.” —Los Angeles Times

A breakthrough novel from an American master about lost loves and the search for meaning in unlikely places. The eighth novel in the Wild at Heart novel cycle that began in 1990, the book that brings the Sailor and Lula story to its natural conclusion. the family hightower A Novel brian francis slattery $27.95 • 400 pages trade paperback • 978-1-60980-563-0

“There will be blood, Brian Slattery promises early on, and man, does he deliver. . . . Completely satisfying and completely brilliant.” —Stewart O’Nan A thriller describing the twisted fates and turbulent histories of two boys named Peter after the grandfather they share, Peter Henry Hightower: self-made man, major criminal, and son of Cleveland, Ohio, from the winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award. dark alliance: Movie Tie-in Edition The Cia, the Contras, and the Cocaine explosion gary webb $22.95 • 592 pages trade paperback • 978-1-60980-622-4

“The night that I read the ‘Dark Alliance’ series, I was so alarmed, that I literally sat straight up in bed, poring over every word. I reflected on the many meetings I attended throughout South Central Los Angeles during the 1980s, when I constantly asked, ‘Where are all the drugs coming from?’” —US Congresswoman Maxine Waters, from the Foreword 69

compañeras zapatista women’s stories hilary klein 2014 • $19.95 • 384 pages trade paperback • 978-1-60980-587-6

“An essential book for us to understand and learn from the Zapatista movement.” —Rozanne Dunbar-Ortiz The untold story of the women of the Zapatista movement.

the disunited states vladimir pozner $22.95 • 304 pages trade paperback • 978-1-60980-531-9

“To read Pozner’s book is to be reminded of events in American history that are too often forgotten. . . . [He] doesn’t just help us remember by depicting his own moment; he connects the historical dots.” —Chicago Tribune A never-before-published travelogue across the United States during the height of the Great Depression by one of France’s great voices of conscience.

the graphic canon of children’s literature the definitive anthology of kid’s lit as graphics and visuals edited by russ kick 2014 • $38.95 • 448 pages trade paperback • 978-1-60980-530-2

“The most ambitious and successfully realized literary project in recent memory.” —NPR Young people’s literature through the ages is given new life. Fairy tales, fables, fantastical adventures, young adult novels, swashbuckling yarns, your favorite stories from childhood and your teenage years, they’re all here, in all their original complexity and strangeness, before they were censored or sanitized. 70

voices of a people’s history of the united states 10th anniversary 3rd edition howard zinn and anthony arnove $24.95 • 704 pages trade paperback • 978-1-60980-592-0

“Gut-wrenching.” —Jon Stewart The 10th Anniversary 3rd Edition of Howard Zinn’s masterpiece, the companion volume, told in the voice of the people who made our history, to A People’s History of the United States. moments politiques interventions 1977–2009 jacques Rancière translated by mary foster $17.95 • 208 pages trade paperback • 978-1-60980-533-3

“In this collection of short essays, Rancière applies this logic to a number of cultural and political events from the last few decades. Frankly, it’s amazing . . .” —Flavorwire A powerful collection of short essays and interviews by one of France’s most artful political philosophers. exercise will hurt you Concussion, traumatic brain injury, and how the dangers of sports and exercise can affect your health steven j. barrer, MD $22.95 • 224 pages hardcover • 978-1-60980-535-7

A leading neurosurgeon makes the case—based on his extensive career treating exercise-related injuries—for rethinking the way we run, cycle, ski, and do yoga and the rules in high school, college, and professional sports. 71

censored 2015 inspiring we the people mickey huff and andy lee roth with project censored $18.95 • 320 pages trade paperback • 978-1-60980-565-4

“Censored is a clarion call for truth telling.” —Daniel Ellsberg “Project Censored brings to light the most important stories of the year that you never saw or heard about. This is your chance to find out what got buried.” —Diane Ravitch

Everytime a knot is undone, a god is released new and collected poems 1974–2011 Barbara Chase-Riboud $35.00 • 384 pages hardcover • 978-1-60980-594-4

“[W]hat impresses is the poetry’s push and power, combined with fierce historical/political awareness...” — Library Journal Rich with literary allusions traversing cultures and epochs, Everytime a Knot is Undone, a God is Released collects poems by a writer whose mastery of words captures our imagination with daring and elegance. the warlus and the elephants John Lennon’s years of revolution james a. mitchell $17.95 • 288 pages trade paperback • 978-1-60980-576-0

“Never has John Lennon’s early New York period been examined with greater depth and clarity.” —Lee Ranaldo A look back at John Lennon and those who dreamed, rallied, fought, and made music alongside him in the early 1970s. 72

misdirected a novel ali berman $18.95 • 288 pages hardcover • 978-1-60980-573-9

“Berman tackles religious intolerance from an unexpected angle that will hit close to home for many and spark interesting discussion.” —School Library Journal A beautiful coming of age novel that gives an uncensored look at hot-button issues facing young people today: bullying, social pressures, homophobia, religious intolerance, and emerging sexuality. the story of hurry emma williams illustrated by ibrahim quraishi $16.95 • 32 pages hardcover • 978-1-60980-589-0

“A powerful anti-war story in a modern setting.” —Kirkus Reviews An enlightening, compelling, and gentle book for children about the IsraeliPalestine conflict that calls to mind Munro Leaf’s The Story of Ferdinand.” a de activista martha gonzalez illustrated by innosanto nagara $9.99 • 30 pages board • 978-1-60980-569-2

“Finally! A heartwarming board book to teach our children the alphabet of humane values.” —Julia Alvarez A de Activista is the Spanish-language edition of Innosanto Nagara’s bestselling A is for Activist, an ABC board book written by Grammy Award-winning lyricist and singer Martha Gonzalez and illustrated by Nagara for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that unapologetically endorses activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for. 73

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