BEACON PRESS
"They Take Our Jobs!" And 20 Other Myths About Immigration (July, $14) by Aviva Chomsky dissects common myths and assumptions. Ad/promo.
BERRETT-KOEHLER
Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference (June, $14.95) by Shannon Daley-Harris et al. presents small but creative solutions for ending global poverty.
CHELSEA GREEN
The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis (Mar., $21.95) by Greg Pahl focuses on renewable energy strategies for individuals and communities.
CITY LIGHTS
Interventions (May, $11.95) by Noam Chomsky collects some 30 essays aimed at raising public ire over the consequences of U.S. power. 100,000 first printing. Author tour.
Targeting Iran (Apr., $11.95) by David Barsamian presents four experts' perspectives on Iran's history, future and its collision course with the U.S. 75,000 first printing. Author tour.
COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory (Mar., $27.50), edited by Ahmad H. Sa'di and Lila Abu-Lughod, examines how 1948's nakba—"catastrophe"—has shaped Palestinians' memories and claims for justice.
CURBSTONE PRESS
Cowboy in Caracas: A Personal Account of Venezuela's Democratic Revolution (Apr., $14) by Charles Hardy views recent Venezuelan history from a barrio perspective.
DISINFORMATION CO.
Iran: Everything You Need to Know (Apr., $9.95) by John Farndon. Rabid Islamic dog or cultured nation? The author offers facts and lets readers decide.
DOWN EAST BOOKS
LNG: A Level-Headed Look at the Liquefied Natural Gas Controversy (Apr., $15.95) by Virginia L. Thorndike gathers unbiased information on both sides of this topic.
FABER FABER
How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Mag of All Time (Apr., $20) by Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer presents the inside story of the revolutionary periodical.
FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY
Taking On the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business and the Nation (Apr., $15.95) by Ellen Bravo. Firsthand journalistic portraits propel an analysis of workplace economic discrimination.
HYPERION
Not on Our Watch: A Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond (May, $12.95) by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast examines the partnership between the actor and the activist who tried to change the course of history in the Sudan. 60,000 first printing.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV. PRESS
Regime Change: U.S. Strategy Through the Prism of 9/11 (Mar.; $25, cloth $65) by Robert S. Litwak studies the contrasting precedents set with Iraq and Libya and analyzes the crises with North Korea and Iran.
KOA BOOKS (dist. by PGW)
Dissent in a Democracy:Profiles of Whistleblowers and Others Who Have Dared to Speak the Truth About the War in Iraq (Apr., $15) by former State Department diplomat and army colonel Ann Wright with Susan Dixon explains her choice to resign before the Iraq war and shares stories of other dissenters.
LONELY PLANET
Tony Wheeler's Badlands: A Tourist on the Axis of Evil (Apr., $14.99) by Tony Wheeler, cofounder of Lonely Planet, examines nine countries largely closed off from the outside world.
NEW PRESS
Unmarketable (July, $15.95) by Anne Elizabeth Moore investigates corporate America's alliance with the cultural underground. Author tour.
OLIVE BRANCH PRESS (dist. by Interlink)
9/11 and American Empire (Vol. 2): Muslims, Jews and Christians Speak Out (Mar., $20), edited by Kevin Barrett et al., raises moral questions for any faith, worldview or national/ethnic identification.
Failure to Debunk: Challenging the Critics of the 9/11 Truth Movement (Mar., $17) by David Ray Griffin refutes movements rejecting official theories about 9/11.
OTHER PRESS
Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse (June, $16.95) by Sylvain Cypel examines Israel through its institutions, including the army and educational system. Author tour.
PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town? (Mar., $24.95), edited by Jerilou Hammett and Kingsley Hammett, raises questions about the future of Gotham.
PROMETHEUS BOOKS
The Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-Hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship (Apr., $20) by Elliott D. Cohen and Bruce W. Fraser argues that Americans are being shocked into giving up constitutional rights in the name of the war on terrorism.
TRAVELERS TALES/ SOLAS HOUSE
Encounters with the Middle East: True Stories of People and Culture That Help You Understand the Region (Apr., $14.95), edited by Nesreen Khashan and Jim Bowman, collects 30 travel stories from the conflicted region.
UNIV. OF MICHIGAN PRESS
No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools (Mar.; $24.95, cloth $65) by Scott Franklin Abernathy argues that the achievement gap will never be closed without a complete reassessment of the 2001 law.
VANDERBILT UNIV. PRESS
Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church (Mar., $24.95) by Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea recounts the dynamics of sexual abuse by priests and the coverups that followed.
VERSO
Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah (Apr., $16.95), edited by Nicholas Noe, trans. by Ellen Khouri, collects the group leader's speeches and interviews.
