Fall 2007 Trade Paperbacks: Contemporary Affairs
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 8/6/2007
Amber Books
African Americans and the Future of New Orleans: Rebirth, Renewal and Rebuilding–An American Dilemma (Sept., $15.95) by Philip S. Hart focuses on the disaster and the city's comeback.
Brookings Institution Press
Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto (Oct.; $26.95, cloth $62.95), edited by Ernesto Zedillo, proposes an agenda for global collective action. Copublished with the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
Carnegie Endowment for Int'l. Peace
Getting Russia Right (Oct.; $19.95, cloth $49.95) by Dmitri V. Trenin illuminates contemporary Russia.
Charta/Libellum
(dist. by D.A.P.)
Judge (Oct., $24.95) by Vincent Katz and Wayne Gonzales combines collage and poetry to communicate the drastic state of current events.
Chelsea Green
The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (Sept., $12) by Naomi Wolf is a call to counteract the erosion of civil liberties. 100,000 first printing.
Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products—Who's at Risk and What's at Stake for American Power (Sept., $22.95) by Mark Schapiro positions Brussels, not Washington, as today's center for global market innovation. 40,000 first printing.
Cornell Univ. Press
Capitalism Without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China (Sept., $21) by Kellee S. Tsai argues that China will not develop a democratic system within the predictable future.
Council on Foreign Relations Press
Beyond Humanitarianism: What You Need to Know About Africa and Why It Matters (Sept., $17.95) by the Council on Foreign Relations clarifies the challenge for the U.S. in Africa's future.
Harper Perennial
In the Hot Zone (Oct., $13.95) by Kevin Sites shares the journalist's viewpoints on world conflict and the media's future. 100,000 first printing.
Henry Holt
Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community (Nov., $13) by Bill McKibben and the Step It Up Team advises how to launch grassroots campaigns to apply pressure.
Melville House
Reporting Iraq (Oct., $18.95) by Mike Hoyt and John Palatella fuses reporters' words with photojournalists' images to create an illustrated narrative history of the war.
Metropolitan Books
What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World (Sept., $15) by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian collects 2006 and 2007 interviews on domestic and foreign issues.
Moment Point Press
And Now for the Good News: A Mega-Dose of Positive News to Inform, Inspire, and Fill You with Optimism (Sept., $14.95) by Sue Ray puts a positive spin on current events.
Multnomah
The Apocalypse of Ahmadinejad (Sept., $13.99) by Mark Hitchcock spotlights Iran's current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Olive Branch Press
(dist. by Interlink)
Surviving Iraq: Soldiers' Stories (Oct., $18) by Elise Forbes Tripp. Thirty veterans share their experiences during the invasion, occupation and insurgency.
Other Press
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak (Nov., $14.95) by Jean Hatzfeld, trans. by Linda Coverdale, assembles interviews with 14 survivors of the genocide. Author tour.
Oxford Univ. Press
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (Sept., $15.95) by David Bornstein celebrates the stories of real people who have made a difference.
Palgrave MacMillan
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War (Jan., $15.95) by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal analyzes how the conflict has played out within the international community. Ad/promo.
Phoenix Press
(dist. by Sterling)
Celsius 7/7: How the West's Policy of Appeasement Has Provoked Yet More Fundamentalist Terror—and What Has to Be Done Now (Sept., $14.95) by Michael Gove. Named for the date of London's 2006 transit bombings, this book contextualizes the current challenge.
Pluto Press
The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 759 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison (Oct.; $24.95, cloth $80) by Andy Worthington fleshes out the tales of each incarcerated individual.
Public Affairs
Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril (Sept., $13.95) by the writers of the Washington Post compiles pieces written in the decade following the Million Man March.
Seven Stories Press
Censored 2008 (Sept., $18.95), edited by Peter Phillips and Project Censored, highlights the year's 25 most important underreported news stories.
The Contenders: Hillary, John, Al, Dennis, Barack, et al. (Nov., $17.95) by Lura Flanders et al. Witty commentators present another side of the 2008 presidential campaign.
Tidewater
Voices of the Chesapeake Bay (Oct., $TBA) by Michael Buckley. The Annapolis, Md., radio host presents the bay from a variety of perspectives.
Univ. of California Press
The State of the American Empire: How the USA Shapes the World (Sept., $19.95) by Stephen Burman. A succinct, four-color atlas surveys the dynamics of the American empire.
Univ. of Chicago Press
The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (Sept., $15) documents how the military has attempted to reconceive the ongoing mission in Iraq in terms of international terrorism.
Vanderbilt Univ. Press
Rx for Health Care Reform (Sept.; $24.95, cloth $69.95) by Ken Terry advocates a complete overhaul without discarding free enterprise.
Wiley
The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders (Sept., $14.95) by Keith Olbermann arrives with opinions aired on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
