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Richard Abanes
End-Time Visions
The Road to Armageddon?
A look at doomsday madness: its leaders, its history, its followers, and its dogma. Abanes — an investigative reporter specializing in cults, the occult, world religions, and the new religious movement — takes a broad historical as well as pan-national approach to society's ever-present obsession with the end of the world.
$25.95 | hardcover | illustrated | index | ISBN: 1-56858-104-1 | 432 pp.
Nonfiction | Religion | World rights
Richard Abanes
One Nation under Gods
A History of the Mormon Church
"A unique and fascinating book that reveals many of those rarely discussed aspects of Mormon history known only to serious investigators of Mormonism's past. Although One Nation under Gods is documented as meticulously as any scholarly work, it reads more like the screenplay to a fast-paced action movie." — Hank Hanegraaff, Christian Research Institute
$32.00 | hardcover | 651 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-219-6
History | Religion
Amir D. Aczel
Entanglement
The Greatest Mystery in Physics
Amir Aczel's great gift lies in his skill in explaining mind-boggling concepts in intelligible language. Reading Entanglement, for a moment you may get the impression you, too, could be a "quantum mechanic," one of the grease monkeys checking the oil in Bohr & Einstein's Cosmic Garage.
$25.00 | hardcover | illustrated | ISBN 1-56858-232-3
Science
Amir D. Aczel
Fermat's Last Theorem
Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem
"A mathematical bonbon of a book." — the New Yorker. "A tale of buried treasure, lucidly presented … A captivating volume." — the New York Times. A finalist for the 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Award.
160 pages | illustrated | index
$18.00 (cloth) | ISBN: 1-56858-077-0
Science
Amir D. Aczel
God's Equation
Einstein, Relativity and the Expanding Universe
An exploration into what powers the stars on their journey to the edge of the cosmos.
$22.00 | hardcover | ISBN: 1-56858-139-4 | illustrated | index
Science
Amir D. Aczel
How to Beat the I.R.S. at Its Own Game
Strategies to Avoid — and Fight — an Audit
Second edition. "The I.R.S. as well as taxpayers can learn something from this book." — the Wall Street Journal.
$10.95 (paper) | ISBN: 1-56858-048-7 | 190 pages | nonfiction
Amir D. Aczel
The Mystery of the Aleph
Mathematics, Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
Mysticism and mathematics: from the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem.
$24.95 | cloth | 304 pp. | illustrated
index | ISBN: 1-56858-105-X | Science
Michel Albert
Capitalism Vs. Capitalism
How America's Obsession with Individual Achievement and Short-term Profit Has Led It to the Brink of Collapse
"A distinguished and highly literate French businessman, scholar, and economist gives his view of the European, and notably, the American present and prospect. Do not miss it." — John Kenneth Galbraith.
288 pages | nonfiction
$25.95 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-004-5
$12.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-005-3
Robert Allen
Simple Annals
200 Years of an American Family
"A collection of poems and short prose pieces that is at once a memoir, family history, and folkloric conjuration." — Publishers Weekly.
224 pages | nonfiction
$22.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-090-8
Leon Anderson
Japanese Rage
Japanese Business and Its Assault on the West
Half a century ago, the United States was at war with Japan. That war continues today, in a slightly different guise — but no less ruthlessly, suggests Anderson.
250 pages | nonfiction | $22.00 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-59-X
Sherwood Anderson. Edited by Charles E. Modlin.
Certain Things Last
The Selected Stories of Sherwood Anderson
Thirty stories in all, including previously unpublished manuscripts. "A rich collection with an essential American flavor." — the San Francisco Chronicle.
388 pages | fiction | $24.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-85-9
John Annerino
Dead in Their Tracks
Crossing America's Desert Borderlands
Now in paperback!
The story of one of the most brutal environments on earth and the people who pass through — or stay to die. "The story is riveting, Annerino's writing is emotional and graphic …" —San Diego Union-Tribune
$13.95 | Paperback | 228 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-267-6
$22.00 | hardcover | 236 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-132-7
B&W photos throughout
Autobiography | Politics, Current Issues
John Annerino
Desert Survivor
An Adventurer's Guide to Exploring the Great American Desert
The first authoritative book to explore the area from the Great Basin Desert in Oregon to the Chihuahuan Desert in Central Mexico.
$15.95 | paper | photographs | ISBN 1-56858-200-5
Autobiography | Sports
John Annerino
Roughstock
The Toughest Events in Rodeo
Cowboys come in all colors — not just white — and this book shows them at their wildest.
$45.00 | hardcover | 176 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-177-7
Art | Sports
FEATURED BOOK
Sally Armstrong
Veiled Threat
The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan
"That Afghan women survive is a testament of hope, and Armstrong suggests … that the time may be ripe for some of that hope to turn real." —Kirkus Reviews
"[Armstrong has] taken on a righteous cause and does it justice." —Publishers Weekly
$24.95 | 223 pages | illustrated | ISBN: 1-56858-252-8
History | Politics
Juan Luis Arsuaga
The Neanderthal's Necklace
In Search of the First Thinkers
Translated by Andy Klatt
A vivid account of one of science's greatest mysteries, now available in paperback.
Paperback | $15.00 | 334 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-303-6
Cloth | $25.95 | 304 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-187-4
illustrated | index
History | Nature
Steve Aylett
Atom
A new novel from metacyberpunk Aylett that gives new meaning to the word "bizarre."
$14.95 | paper | ISBN:1-56858-175-0 | 137 pp.
Science Fiction | Novel
Steve Aylett
The Crime Studio
Hotshot Aylett gives us a dose of sci-noir: "… Raymond Chandler on hallucinogens." — Washington Post Book World
$14.95 | paperback original | 156 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-148-3
Fiction | Science Fiction
Steve Aylett
Slaughtermatic
Set in the blood-drenched chaos that is Beerlight, where crime is the "new and only art form," Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick waltz into First National with some serious attitude and a couple of snub guns. What happens next is a tangled mess of reality and virtual reality.
$13.95 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-103-3 | 168 pp.
Science Fiction | World rights (excluding the UK)
Steve Aylett
Toxicology
"Manic neo-noir." — Publishers Weekly
$12.95 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-131-9 | 160 pp.
Short Stories | Science Fiction
Ed Ayres
God's Last Offer
Negotiating for a Sustainable Future
Now in paperback!
"A deeply intelligent compendium of the perils we face, the reasons we don't really sense them, and the things we could do to head them off, if only we understood." — Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
358 pages | Politics
$22.00 (cloth) | ISBN: 1-56858-125-4
$14.95 (paper) | ISBN 1-56858-174-2
Edited by Steve Bachmann
Preach Liberty
Selections from the Bible for Progressives
Beautifully illustrated by John Bowdren, Preach Liberty culls a wide selection of sayings from both the Old and New Testaments.
180 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | index | $10.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-29-8
Phil Berger
Blood Season
Mike Tyson and the World of Boxing
The rise and fall and rise of Mike Tyson, by the former boxing correspondent for the New York Times. Including an update on Tyson's conviction for rape and an assessment of his postprison career. "A valuable, clear-headed and much needed overview of the sport." — the New York Times.
342 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | index | $13.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-069-X
Phil Berger. Introduction by Marv Albert.
Miracle on 33rd Street
The New York Knickerbockers' Championship Season, 1969-70
"A brilliant moody tricky book that shifts from quick description to fascinating chunks of self-revealing monologues. … Clear and nontechnical explanations of how the Knicks won the world championship." — Robert Lipsyte, the New York Times.
256 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | $14.95 (paperback) ISBN 1-56858-008-8
Phil Berger. Foreword by Bert Sugar.
Punch Lines: Berger on Boxing
Profiles of Riddick Bowe, Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman, and many more, by the former boxing correspondent for the New York Times.
350 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | index
$24.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-93-X
$13.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-95-6
Joseph Beuys. Edited by Carin Kuoni.
Joseph Beuys in America
Energy Plan for the Western Man
"A tasty collection of hitherto uncollected | unpublished writings by and about the legendary German artist." — FlashArt.
288 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | $14.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-007-X
Edwin Black
War Against the Weak
Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
"Groundbreaking…chilling…Edwin Black is a dangerous man. He tells us things we don't want to hear…. War Against the Weak is a scary and necessary book." —Esquire
$27.00 | hardcover | 592 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-258-7
History | Politics
Tony Blanche and Brad Schreiber
Death in Paradise
"An Illustrated History of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner The facts — and pictures — behind such headline tragedies from LaLa land as the Black Dahlia, Manson and Bugsy Siegel slayings, the death of Janis Joplin, and many more.
$$18.00 | 192 pages | paper
b&w photos throughout | index | ISBN: 1-56858-205-6
Dugmore Boetie. Afterword by Barney Simon.
Familiarity Is the Kingdom of the Lost
The autobiographical novel of a black thief in South Africa. "There are images in this book that burn the mind." — Publishers Weekly.
172 pages | fiction | $6.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-20-4
Edited and revised introduction by Angela Bonavoglia
The Choices We Made
Twenty-five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion
"Journalist Angela Bonavoglia steps back and lets the contributors speak for themselves in honest, conversational tones." — New York Times
$14.00 | 201 pages | trade paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-188-2
Autobiography | Women’s Studies
Harold Brackman, Ph.D.
Ministry of Lies
The Truth Behind "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews"
"Harold Brackman has documented that … [the] repeated insistence that the Jews dominated the slave trade depends on an unscrupulous distortion of the historic record." — Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the New York Times.
124 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | $10.00 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-016-9
David Britland and Gazzo
Phantoms of the Card Table
Confessions of a Cardsharp
""After carefully watching the super-clever work of the above-mentioned men, after seeing them under fire under all conditions, I have come to the conclusion that Scott is the greatest of them all." —Eddie McGuire, professional cardsharp
$14.00 | 256 pages | trade paper | photographs | ISBN 1-56858-299-4
Games | History
Michael Brodsky
Circuits
"He is a Descartes deprived of the certainty of 'I am,' while endlessly in search of it.… Unique meditations on being and reality." — the New York Times.
260 pages | fiction | $11.95 (paper) | ISBN: 0-941062-58-9
Michael Brodsky
Detour
"No American first novel in recent memory works harder to extend fictional frontiers." — the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
360 pages | fiction | $11.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941062-59-7
Michael Brodsky
Project
Stories and Plays
"Brodsky possesses a masterly control of diction and rhythm, an often startling metaphoric gift, and a range of effects extending from Swiftian bluntness to Proustian elaboration." — the New York Review of Books.
368 pages | fiction | $10.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941062-51-1
Michael Brodsky
Southernmost and Other Stories
"It is … the figurative southernmost of the imagination Brodsky is after … It is the very telling itself that is mired in fragility. Brodsky is an immensely talented writer.…" — the Review of Contemporary Fiction.
352 pages | fiction
$25.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-064-9
$14.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-065-7
Michael Brodsky
Three Goat Songs
Three novellas, each about a man who sits on a rocky coast by the seashore, contemplating. "A challenging, at times dazzling book." — Publishers Weekly.
220 pages | fiction
$18.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-46-8
$ 9.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-47-6
Michael Brodsky
We Can Report Them
The latest from "an immensely talented writer" (Review of Contemporary Fiction).
$16.95 | pb original | ISBN: 1-56858-144-0 | 356 pp.
Novels | Fiction
Michael Brodsky
X in Paris
A baker's dozen of short stories by Brodsky, representing the postmodern master at his best. "A tour de force." — the Columbus Post-Dispatch.
180 pages | fiction | $9.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-13-1
Michael Brodsky
Xman
"Reminiscent in equal parts of Beckett's deadpan humor and Joyce's bombast.… Like silent film, Brodsky draws the subtlest insights from an apparently simple reality." — the New York Times Book Review.
540 pages | fiction
$21.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423- 01-8
$11.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-02-6
Joe David Brown
Paper Moon
With a new introduction by Peter Bogdanovich
Back in print…the most exciting rediscovery of the year! "A female Huck Finn!" —Detroit News. "Enchanting … 24-carat fun." —New York Times.
$13.95 | paperback | 320 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-230-7
Fiction
Michel Brun
Incident at Sakhalin
The True Mission of KAL Flight 007
"This book has importance far beyond its sensational and dramatic revelations of a Cold war intelligence ploy that turned into a military engagement — an aerial battle that could easily have escalated into World War III." — Walter Cronkite.
326 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | index | $24.95 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-054-1
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