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BEACON PRESS Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 Beacon Press Gaga Feminism : Sex, Gender, and the End of Summary: A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty- Normal first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind J. Jack Halberstam of feminism 9780807010976 Pub Date: 9/3/13, On Sale Date: 9/3 Why are so many women single, so many men resisting $16.00/$18.00 Can. marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies? 184 pages Paperback / softback / Trade paperback (US) In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Social Science / Gender Studies Jack Halberstam answers these questions while attempting to Territory: World except United Kingdom make sense of the tectonic cultural shifts that have Ctn Qty: 24 transformed gender and sexual politics in the last few 5.500 in W | 8.500 in H decades. This colorful landscape is popula... 140mm W | 216mm H Author Bio: J. Jack Halberstam is the author of four books, including Female Masculinity and The Queer Art of Failure. Currently a professor of American studies and of ethnicity and gender studies at the University of Southern California, Halberstam regularly speaks and writes on queer culture and gender issues and blogs at BullyBloggers. Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 Beacon Press The Long Walk to Freedom : Runaway Slave Summary: In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person Narratives accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon Devon W. Carbado, Donald Weise W. Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve 9780807069097 narratives spanning eight decades-more than half of which Pub Date: 9/3/13, On Sale Date: 9/3 have been long out of print. Told in the voices of the runaway $18.00/$20.00 Can. slaves themselves, these narratives reveal the extraordinary 272 pages and often innovative ways that these men and women sought Paperback / softback / Trade paperback (US) freedom and demanded citizenship. Also included is an essay Social Science / Slavery by UCLA history professor Brenda S... Territory: US, Canada, open market Ctn Qty: 24 Author Bio: Devon W. Carbado is professor of law and African American studies at the University of California at Los 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H 152mm W | 229mm H Angeles and the coeditor of several books, including Race Law Stories (with Rachel Moran) and Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin (with Donald Weise). Donald Weise is an independent scholar in African American history and coeditor of The Huey Newton Reader (with David Hilliard). He lives in New York. Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 Beacon Press The Lost Art of Feeding Kids : What Italy Summary: A lively story of raising a child to enjoy real Taught Me about Why Children Need Real Food food in a processed world, Outside the Box is Food Jeannie Marshall Politics for kids' food. 9780807032992 Pub Date: 9/3/13, On Sale Date: 9/3 Despite Italy's much vaunted position as a world culinary $24.95/$1.11 Can. capitol, many of the worst aspects of the U.S. food system, 232 pages including the aggressive marketing of supposedly nutritious Hardback foods, are making their way into Italian culture, resulting in Family & Relationships / Parenting children eating highly processed foods. Jeannie Marshall, a Territory: US, open market (no Canada) Canadian who lives in Rome, sets out to discover how such a Ctn Qty: 12 time-... 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H 152mm W | 229mm H Author Bio: Jeannie Marshall is a journalist who lives in Rome, Italy with her husband and their young son. She has written for Canadian national newspapers and magazines such as The Globe and Mail and The Walrus. Before moving to Italy in 2002, she was a features writer at the Toronto-based National Post. Her literary non-fiction essays have appeared in Brick and Literary Mama. She works as an occasional consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 - March 2013 Page 1 BEACON PRESS Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 Beacon Press The Many-Headed Hydra : Sailors, Slaves, Summary: Winner of the International Labor History Award Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, 9780807033173 laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas Pub Date: 9/3/13, On Sale Date: 9/3 about freedom and equality that would forever change $26.00/$30.00 Can. history. The Many Headed-Hydra recounts their stories in a 456 pages sweeping history of the role of the dispossessed in the making Paperback / softback / Trade paperback (US) of the modern world. Social Science / Social Classes Territory: World except United Kingdom When an unprecedented expansion of trade and colonization Ctn Qty: 24 in the e... 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H 152mm W | 229mm H Author Bio: Peter Linebaugh, professor of history at the University of Toledo, is a contributing editor of Albion's Fatal Tree and author of The London Hanged. Marcus Rediker, professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, is author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, winner of the American Studies Association's John Hope Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 Beacon Press Sacred Ground : Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Summary: There is no better time to stand up for your Promise of America values than when they are under attack. Eboo Patel 9780807077528 In the decade following the attacks of 9/11, suspicion and Pub Date: 9/3/13, On Sale Date: 9/3 animosity toward American Muslims has increased rather than $15.00/$17.00 Can. subsided. Alarmist, hateful rhetoric once relegated to the 224 pages fringes of political discourse has now become frighteningly Paperback / softback / Trade paperback (US) mainstream, with pundits and politicians routinely invoking the RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & specter of Islam as a menacing, deeply anti-American force. Conflict Territory: World except United Kingdom In Sacred Ground, author and renowned in... Ctn Qty: 24 5.500 in W | 8.500 in H Author Bio: Eboo Patel is the founder and president of 140mm W | 216mm H Interfaith Youth Core and the author of Acts of Faith. He was a member of President Obama's inaugural faith council, is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, Huffington Post, CNN, and public radio, and speaks frequently about interfaith cooperation on college campuses. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two boys. Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 Beacon Press The Right to Stay Home : How US Policy Drives Summary: The story of the growing resistance of Mexican Migration Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people David Bacon to migrate to the United States. 9780807001615 Pub Date: 9/10/13, On Sale Date: 9/10 In this richly detailed and comprehensive portrait of $26.95/$31.00 Can. immigration, activist and journalist David Bacon reveals how 320 pages the interconnected web of labor, migration and the global Hardback economy unites farmers, migrant workers, and union Social Science / Emigration & Immigration organizers across borders. While eleven percent of the Territory: World except United Kingdom population of Mexico lives north of the U.S. border, the Ctn Qty: 12 decision to migrate is rarel... 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H 152mm W | 229mm H Author Bio: Award-winning photojournalist and author, David Bacon has spent twenty years as a labor organizer and immigrant rights activist. He has been a reporter and documentary photographer for nearly 20 years, shooting for many national publications, and has exhibited his work internationally. His previous books include The Children of NAFTA and Illegal People (Beacon in 2008). He is an associate editor at Pacific News Service, and writes for TruthOut, The Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 - March 2013 Page 2 BEACON PRESS Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 Beacon Press Back to Normal : The Overlooked, Ordinary Summary: A veteran clinical psychologist exposes why Explanations for Kids' ADHD, Bipolar, and doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnose Autistic-Like Behavior healthy American children with serious psychiatric Enrico Gnaulati, PhD conditions. 9780807073346 Pub Date: 9/17/13, On Sale Date: 9/17 Back to Normal is the authoritative examination of all the $26.95/$31.00 Can. factors that contribute to the overdiagnosis and misdiagnosis 256 pages of ADHD, autism-spectrum, and bipolar disorders in our Hardback nation's children. Drawing on his extensive professional Psychology / Developmental experience and current research, Gnaulati tells the stories of Territory: World except United Kingdom wrongly diagnosed children and sho... Ctn Qty: 12 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H Author Bio: Enrico Gnaulati is a clinical psychologist with 152mm W | 229mm H more than twenty-five years of experience providing psychotherapy to children and families. A sought-after public speaker, Gnaulati has published a host of child development and children's mental health articles in professional journals and magazines such as Life Learning, Journal of Psychology, and the Los Angeles Psychologist. He regularly presents to parents groups and teachers, and he has been interviewed by Random House Adult Green Omni, Fall 2013 Beacon Press Sons of Abraham : A Candid Conversation Summary: The story of a prominent rabbi and imam, About the Issues That Divide and Unite Jews each raised in orthodoxy, who each overcame the and Muslims temptations of fundamentalism and bigotry and instead Rabbi Marc Schneier, Imam Shamsi Ali began working to bridge the chasm between Muslims 9780807033074 and Jews.