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Prometheus Books 2020 An Imprint of Globe Pequot Prometheus Books 15200 NBN Way Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214 PROMETHEUS BOOKS PROMETHEUS / 2020 PROMETHEUS BOOKS 2020 Cover image © iStock, Matthäus Rojek ORDERING INFORMATION A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR All orders may be placed through the National Book Network sales representatives or directly to:: rometheus Books is proud to be celebrating its 50th anniversary. Founded in National Book Network, Inc. 1969 by Dr. Paul Kurtz, the late philosopher and the driving force behind the 15200 NBN Way, Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST Psecular humanism movement, Prometheus Books has focused its publishing (717) 794-3800 / 1-800-462-6420 in the categories of popular science, critical thinking, philosophy, history, atheism, Toll-Free Fax: 1-800-338-4550 Or, [email protected] humanism, current events, psychology, and true crime. Prometheus’s list includes more than 1,700 active titles. 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Friedman, Sara Wilmot prestigious legal newspaper-did more to establish and aid the rights of women and other legally handicapped people than any 9781633886308 other woman of her day. Her female contemporaries-Susan B. Pub Date: 10/15/19 Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone-are known to all. $18.00 USD/$23.00 CAD/ Now it is time for Myra Bradwell to assume her rightful place £11.95 GBP/€16.95 EUR among women’s rights leaders of the nineteenth century. With 232 pages, Paperback author Jane Friedman’s discovery of previously unpublished Biography/Autobiography/Lawyers letters and valuable documents, Bradwell’s fascinating story & Judges Territory: World can at last be told. Carton Qty: 44 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.7 in T | 0.8 lb Wt Other Formats: 9781633886315 9/17/2019 eBook 9780879758127 $34.99 5/1/1993 Hardcover Earl Warren How did a conservative Republican end up creating the most A Life of Truth and Justice liberal Supreme Court in modern history? This new biography of D. J. Herda Earl Warren Sr., based on primary sources and previously unpub- lished material, brings together for the first time family recollec- 9781633885806 tions, anecdotes, mementoes, photos, documents, and excerpts Pub Date: 12/15/19 from diaries, along with the facts of the great jurist’s life. The $25.00 USD/$32.00 CAD/ result is the most accurate, up-to-date, and complete picture of £15.95 GBP/€22.95 EUR the man available. Beginning with Warren’s upbringing and Scan- 336 pages, Hardcover dinavian immigrant parents who taught him fairness, tolerance, Biography/Autobiography/Lawyers and reverence for the truth, the author then reviews Warren’s & Judges Territory: World early career in California as a district attorney. Focusing largely Carton Qty: 12 on Warren’s remarkable career as Chief Justice of the Supreme 9 in H | 6 in W Court, chapters are devoted to that court’s landmark rulings, Other Formats: including Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda. In addition, 9781633885813 9/24/2019 eBook the author discusses Warren’s relationships with Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy and the Chief Justice’s role in spearheading the Warren Report. American Spy This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating Wry Reflections on My Life life-and a few close brushes with death. With a humorist’s eye in the CIA for absurdity, H. K. Roy describes his many strange and risky H. K. Roy exploits in his long career with the CIA. Whether he was pursuing Soviet and Cuban spies, running “denied area” operations in 9781633885882 Eastern Europe, hunting Bosnian War criminals, or providing Pub Date: 9/24/19 actionable intelligence to US government and coalition forces $25.00 USD/$32.00 CAD/ in Iraq, Roy usually found himself at the right place at the right £15.95 GBP/€22.95 EUR time. Except when he didn’t-like the time he stumbled into a 320 pages, Hardcover life-threatening ambush by Iranian terrorists while dodging Serb Biography/Autobiography/Military Territory: World snipers and shelling in Sarajevo. Eight summers later, caught in Carton Qty: 28 a blinding sandstorm between Amman and Baghdad, he learned 9.3 in H | 6.3 in W | 1.2 in T | 1.4 lb Wt his fate was in the hands of an Iraqi tribal chief who had just lost Other Formats: his entire family to a US airstrike in Ramadi, in a failed attempt 9781633885899 9/10/2019 eBook to kill Saddam Hussein that had tragic consequences. Roy sheds much light on why intelligence is an essential component of our very survival as a nation. PROMETHEUS BOOKS 1 NEW TITLES BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY More Alike Than Different In this inspiring memoir, David Egan authentically describes a life My Life and Lessons of maximizing his abilities, as he advocates for himself and for for Everyone all other people with disabilities. This book is yet another first David Egan, Kathleen Egan in a life that has seen many firsts, a life buoyed by an optimistic perspective that refuses to be limited by stereotypes and the 9781633886285 low expectations of others. He has worked for more than twenty Pub Date: 7/7/20 years for prestigious companies; he sits on the boards of two $24.00 USD/$31.00 CAD/ Cover Coming Soon important advocacy organizations; he has addressed thousands £15.95 GBP/€22.95 EUR of people as an advocate for people with disabilities; and he has 240 pages, Hardcover competed in the Special Olympics. David also conveys valuable Biography/Autobiography/ People With Disabilities lessons that apply to all people: the importance of a supporting Territory: World family and friends; the need for others to see him and other Carton Qty: 12 people with disabilities as persons first, not just as examples 9 in H | 6 in W of a diagnosis. Concluding with an action plan detailing how Other Formats: individuals can discover their own abilities and how society can 9781633886292 7/7/2020 eBook nurture those abilities, this is a book of hope that will encourage everyone to make the most of their lives. Chasing Lemurs At age twenty-five, Keriann McGoogan traveled into the wilds My Journey into the Heart of of Madagascar to study lemurs in their natural habitat and to Madagascar set up a permanent field site in the remote northwest. The trip Keriann McGoogan spiraled out of control. Food poisoning, harrowing backcountry roads, grueling hikes, challenging local politics, malaria, and an 9781633886209 emergency evacuation would turn a simple reconnaissance into Pub Date: 4/13/20 an epic adventure. $24.00 USD/$31.00 CAD/ Keriann vividly describes the challenges of life in an isolated £15.95 GBP/€22.95 EUR forest region while also bringing to life the wonders of Madagas- 256 pages, Hardcover car’s incredible biodiversity, especially its lemurs. Biography/Autobiography/ Personal Memoirs Sadly, these animals are the most endangered group of pri- Territory: World mates in the world.
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