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Pat Cadigan
Synners
"Beside Synners, most previous cyberpunk novels look like vignettes.… Settle back for a great read." — Locus
$13.95 | 435 pages | trade paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-185-8
Fiction | Science Fiction
Richard Calder
Frenzetta
"One of the savviest, most uniquely talented writers of SF to appear in many a year." —Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
$13.95 | paperback | 192 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-229-3
Fiction
Richard Calder
The Twist
The Matrix meets A Fistful of Dollars in this highly sexed, violent — and insouciant — novel.
$12.95 | paper | 238 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-292-7
Fiction | Science Fiction
Ana Carrigan
The Palace of Justice
A Colombian Tragedy
"Vivid, authoritative and righteously indignant … Could do for Colombia what Zola's J'Accuse did for France." — Kirkus Reviews.
288 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | $22.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-82-4
Jerome Charyn
The Isaac Quartet
Blue Eyes | Marilyn the Wild |
The Education of Patrick Silver | Secret Isaac
"There's nothing quite like a Charyn novel: not quite mystery, not quite procedural, the sentences clipping along at a pace that makes MTV seem slow." —Washington Post
$35.00 | cloth | 610 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-234-X
$17.95 | paper | 610 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-228-5
Fiction
Jerome Charyn
Gangsters & Gold Diggers
Old New York, the Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadway
"A legendary New York writer picks up where Gangs of New York left off and brings the guys and dolls of old Broadway to life.
$24.00 | 304 pages | illustrated | index | ISBN: 1-56858-278-1
History
Jerome Charyn
Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins
Ping-pong and the Art of Staying Alive
Now in paperback!
"Probably The Sun Also Rises of ping-pong … Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins is filled with pleasures." — Don DeLillo
$14.95 | paperback | 208 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-242-0
$24.00 | hardcover | 160 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-207-2
black and white illustrations | Sports
Jules Cashford
The Moon
Myth and Image
An illustrated tour through four millennia of humanity's obsession with the brightest object in the night sky.
$25.95 | hardcover | 372 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-265-X
History | Psychology | Science
Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D.
Letters to a Young Feminist
A call-to-action from a leading revolutionary of feminism's Second Wave to the generation of feminists emerging today. In a voice full of compassion and strength, Chesler weaves her personal experience with the history of the movement to assess the accomplishments and failures of her era, as she encourages the next generation to take on what remains to be done.
$18.00 | hardcover | ISBN: 1-56858-093-2 | 176 pp.
$11.00 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-151-3 | 166 pp.
Nonfiction | Women's Studies | World rights
Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D.
With Child
A Diary of Motherhood
An intimate account of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood,With Child affirms the importance of motherhood while acknowledging the high cost of wanting it all. Beginning with her pregnancy and ending with her son's first birthday, Chesler describes the sweet ironies of motherhood; including her infant son's ability to teach her.
$15.95 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-095-9 | 304 pp.
Nonfiction | Child Care | World rights
Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D.
Women and Madness
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
"Intense, rapid, brilliant, controversial, Women and Madness is a pioneer contribution to the feminization of psychiatric thinking and practice. — Adrienne Rich
Chesler suggests to the male-dominated worlds of psychiatry and psychology that sex-role stereotypes are at the heart of the diagnosis of mental illness, in particular for women.
400 pages | psychology | women's studies
$15.00 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-096-7
Edited by Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal
American Poets Say GoodBye
to the Twentieth Century
More than 100 poets from divergent backgrounds and literary traditions including Paul Auster, Charles Bukowski, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Kumin, Carolyn Kizer, Charles Simic, David Trinidad, and Anne Waldman.
352 pages | poetry
$18.00 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-068-1
Sue Coe
Dead Meat
Introduction by Alexander Cockburn.
Preface by Tom Regan.
"A fascinating and revealing portrait of the institutions behind the meat we eat … Sue Coe's illustrations have the sharply lined affecting realism of a Diego Rivera mural." — Publishers Weekly (starred review).
224 pages | nonfiction | illustrated in color and b&w
$45 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-050-9
$22 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-041-X
Sue Coe
Pit's Letter
A dog's tale: from pup to grave. "Her blunt pictures clear your moral sinuses like ammonia." — Newsweek
$22.00 | cloth | 48 pages | illustrated throughout
color insert | ISBN: 1-56858- 163-7
Fiction | Illustrated books | Art
Julia Collins
My Father's War
"Freelance writer Collins has written a poetic, haunting account of her father's experiences in WWII and their devastating impact on his family … the book is a powerful, moving and timely story of one family touched by 'the good war's' collateral damage." —Publishers Weekly
$24.95 | hardcover | 248 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-224-2
Autobiography/Memoir
Richard Condon
The Manchurian Candidate
With a new introduction by Louis Menand
The classic thriller of assassination, brainwashing and treachery.
"Apocalyptic ... Condon is wickedly skillful." —Time
$13.95 | trade paper | 320 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-270-6
Fiction
Dr. Gerry Cornelius
How to Be a Perfect Father
The Ultimate Guide for New Dads
In time for Father's Day …! If you buy only one book on parenthood, buy Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care. But if you buy two books, buy this one. Any new father or father-to-be is guaranteed to laugh when he reads it. Unless he cries.
$12.00 | paperback | 112 pages | ISBN 1-56858-302-8
Fiction
Hart Crane
O My Land, My Friends
The Selected Letters of Hart Crane
Edited by Langdon Hammer and Brom Weber. Foreword by Paul Bowles
Over 300 letters from one of the most important modern American poets. Includes correspondence with Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Eugene O'Neill, Katherine Anne Porter, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz, and many others.
492 pages | nonfiction | index
$35.00 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-18-2
Lynn Crawford
Simply Separate People
"The world Lynn Crawford creates in Simply Separate People is so bewitching and original she soon may find the Surgeon General classifying her work as dangerously addictive." —Harry Mathews
$14.00 | paperback | 144 pages | ISBN: 0-9712485-0-8
Fiction
Peter Crowther, editor
Cities
Novellas by China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, Paul Di Filippo, and Geoff Ryman
We're going to some places that you have most assuredly not visited before …
$17.00 | 292 pages | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-304-4
Fiction | Science Fiction
Edited by Scott Cunningham, Sabrina Jones,
Peter Kuper, and Seth Tobocman
World War 3 Illustrated
More than thirty artists who represent both the extreme edge of the comic art and its future: radical voices for the 21st century. "Take-no-prisoners graphic assaults…" — the New York Times.
256 pages | graphic work | illustrated in color and black-and-white
$19.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-039-8
Kati David
A Child's War
World War II Through the Eyes of Children
"A rare and poignant account of World War II as witnessed through the eyes of 15 children of different faiths and countries." — the New York Times.
220 pages | nonfiction | $17.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-24-7
Paul Di Filippo
Fractal Paisleys
Ten funky science fiction stories by the widely acclaimed author of The Steampunk Trilogy and Ribofunk. Irreverent, funny and sexy: "Clever… An often genuinely funny mixture of Raymond Carver, Harry Harrison, and Douglas Adams." — Booklist
320 pages | fiction | science fiction
$20.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-032-0
Paul Di Filippo
Little Doors
"Di Filippo is like gourmet potato chips to me. I can never eat just one of his stories." — Harlan Ellison
$24.95 | 271 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-241-2
Science Fiction | Short Stories
Paul Di Filippo
Lost Pages
"I swear on the grave of my sainted mother that Lost Pages by Paul Di Filippo is nothing less than an imperial read. An excellent book of genuinely memorable stories of which one, 'Anne,' is alone worth the price of the volume; you'll not forget it." — Harlan Ellison
$15.95 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-099-1 | 304 pages
Fiction | Science Fiction | Short Stories
Paul Di Filippo
Ribofunk
"Paul Di Filippo is pushing science fiction into a biological realm. … With the publication of Ribofunk, a collection of his short stories, Di Filippo may be in a position to help alter the sci-fi landscape once again — and with it, how we think about where biotech is taking us as a species." — Wired.
304 pages | fiction | $20.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-062-2
Paul Di Filippo
The Steampunk Trilogy
"… The literary equivalent of Max Ernst's collages of 19th-century steel engravings, spooky, haunting, hilarious." — William Gibson
"Buy a copy for all your friends. What the hell, buy a copy for your enemies as well." — Science Fiction Chronicle
354 pages | fiction
$20.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-028-2
$14.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-102-5
Lorraine B. Diehl
The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station
Introduction by Ada Louise Huxtable.
"It's a beautiful book, beautifully done.… I was in Penn Station a lot, and this book makes me miss it." — Jack Finney, author of Time and Again.
176 pages | nonfiction | illustrated
$16.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-060-6
Cory Doctorow
A Place So Foreign and Eight More
Introduction by Bruce Sterling
"Cory Doctorow straps on his miner's helmet and takes you deep into the caverns and underground rivers of Pop Culture, here filtered through SF-colored glasses. Enjoy." —Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods and Sandman
$13.95 | paper | 250 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-286-2
Science Fiction | Short Stories
Jack Doyle
Taken for a Ride
Detroit's Big Three and the Politics of Pollution
"A riveting tale of colossal negligence and corporate
skullduggery…" — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
$22.00 | paperback | 586 pages | illustrated | index
ISBN: 1-56858-147-5 | History, Politics
Eric Drooker
Flood! A Novel in Pictures
"A complex, dream-charged vision of alienation in the wet, mean streets of New York City. Poetic and lyrical." — Art Spiegelman in the New York Times Book Review. Los Angeles Times fiction prize finalist. New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 1994 American Book Award Winner.
166 pages | graphic work | illustrated | $15.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-79-4
Jean Dubuffet
Asphyxiating Culture and Other Writings
Translated by Carol Volk. Introduction by Thomas M. Messer.
Known for his spontaneity and irreverence, Dubuffet was the champion of "art brut" ("raw art"). "Entertaining and provocative." — Choice.
128 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | $17.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-09-3
Andrea Dworkin
Mercy
"If Andrea Dworkin is the Malcolm X of feminism, then this novel is her version of his Autobiography.… She is brilliant, her anger is a polished and dangerous instrument, and even some of the people she's marked as enemies can hope she finds her way." — Madison Smartt Bell, the Chicago Tribune.
352 pages | fiction
$13.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-88-3
Ovidio Diaz Espino
How Wall Street Created a Nation
J. P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal
Now in paperback!
On the occasion of Panama's centennial, and on the heels of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a book that uncovers the facts behind one of the first U.S. interventions abroad.
$16.00 | paper | ISBN: 1-56858-266-8
$27.95 | cloth | ISBN: 1-56858-196-3
254 pages | illustrated | index | History
Brian Evenson
Father of Lies
"A remarkable book, with enormous potential to inflame … to set the kind of fire without which no institutional injustice can ever be incinerated. I admire Evenson's writing and respect his courage." — Andrew Vachss
$22.00 | hardcover | 232 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-116-5
Fiction
Madelain Farah
Lebanese Cuisine
More than 200 Simple, Delicious, Authentic Recipes
"… the Betty Crocker cookbook of the Middle East" — The Oregonian
$15.00 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-179-3 | Cooking
Ronald K. Fried
Corner Men
Great Boxing Trainers
Including chapters on Ray Arcel, Jack Blackburn, Angelo Dundee, and many others. "Remarkable men … Enough to restore your faith in boxing." — the New York Times. New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
414 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | index | $21.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-48-4
Jack Fruchtman, Jr.
Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom
"A spirited, riveting biography that cogently argues that Paine was a pantheist who saw God's handiwork in all nature and in humanity's struggles to improve the common good." — Publishers Weekly (starred review).
416 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | index
$30.00 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-94-8
$17.00 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-063-0
Ladislav Fuks
Mr. Theodore Mundstock
Prague, 1942: the Germans occupy the city and the Jews await the call to the concentration camps. "Crisply written, a model of its kind." — Anthony Burgess.
216 pages | fiction
$10.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-62-X
Text by Mahatma Gandhi. Illustrated by Béatrice Tanaka.
Gandhi: Lifelines
Glorious illustrations and the words of an unparalleled leader in one package. One-third of royalties go to the Navijivan Trust in India.
48 pages | nonfiction | illustrated
$13.00 (paper) ISBN 1-56858-088-6
Jaclyn Geller
Here Comes the Bride
Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystique
"Like a gust of fresh air, Jaclyn Geller blows away the perfumed fog of romance and illusion that obscures the nature of matrimony in the west." — Alix Kates Shulman, author of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
$15.00 | 440 pages | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-193-9
Politics | Current Affairs | Self-Help
Allen Ginsberg. Illustrated by Eric Drooker.
Illuminated Poems
Includes "Howl," four never-before-anthologized works, a brief introduction by the poet, and approximately 50 poems spanning 1948 through the present day, all accompanied by 50 illustrations.
144 pages | graphic work | illustrated in color and black-and-white
$35.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-045-2
$18.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-070-3
Limited 300-copy signed edition: $125.00 (slipcased) ISBN: 1-56858-072-X
Jay M. Gould
The Enemy Within
The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors
Breast Cancer, AIDS, Low Birth Weights, and Other Radiation-Induced Immune Deficiency Effects
"If there is one book that might stimulate a protest against our addiction to nuclear pollution and military industrial violence, it is … The Enemy Within.…" — the Nation.
224 pages | nonfiction | illustrated with maps and charts
$14.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-066-5
Wayne Grady
The Bone Museum
Travels in the Lost Worlds of Dinosaurs and Birds
Now available in paperback!
"Insightful." —Smithsonian Magazine
$14.95 | paper | 304 pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN: 1-56858-261-7
$24.95 | hardcover | 304 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-204-8
Memoir | Science
Ralph Graeub
The Petkau Effect
The Devastating Effect of Nuclear Radiation on Human Health and the Environment
Introduction by Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass.
Revised Edition. "The Petkau Effect is really a paradigm for the unknown havoc we stir into action when we blindly pursue industrial advance. No one who reads this book will come away having learned nothing. No one could be left unaffected." — the San Diego Review.
250 pages | nonfiction | illustrated with maps and graphs
$14.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-019-3 
Tom Grimes
A Stone of the Heart
"Conveys a vivid sense of a boy coming of age … Fast-paced, funny, dramatic and convincing." — the Wall Street Journal. New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
166 pages | fiction | $15.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-40-9
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