Four Walls Eight Windows Catalog

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FEATURED BOOK entries have their own pages.

H | I | J | K

FEATURED BOOK
Hugo Hamilton
Sad Bastard
"Funny, neatly-observed and unusually warming." — Time Out
$13.95 | 193 pages | paperback original | ISBN: 1-56858-206-4
Fiction

FEATURED BOOK
James S. Henry
The Blood Bankers
Tales from the Global Underground Economy
Introduction by Senator Bill Bradley
"A timely reminder of the urgent need to launch a new War on Global Poverty [that] is not only essential for our own peace and security, it also happens to be the right thing to do." —Senator Bill Bradley
$26.95 | cloth | 417 pages | illustrated | index | ISBN: 1-56858-254-4
History | Politics | Current Issues

Buddy Hickerson
The Quigmans
In this, the third collection of The Quigmans, internationally syndicated comic panel, creator Buddy Hickerson proves that Bob Quigman is not a flash in the pan. He can be burnt repeatedly.
64 pages | graphic work | illustrated
$9.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-100-9

FEATURED BOOK
The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman
Introduction by Norman Mailer
Afterword by Howard Zinn
At last.… back in print, in a revised edition! The inside story of the man who was at the heart of the alternative movements in the 60s and 70s, and who continues to inspire millions today.
$13.50 | 314 pages | paper | illustrated
ISBN: 1-56858-197-1 | Politics | Memoir

Abbie Hoffman
The Best of Abbie Hoffman
Selections from Revolution for the Hell of It, Woodstock Nation, Steal This Book and New Writings
Edited by Daniel Simon. Foreword by Norman Mailer.
"A unique first-person account of the irrepressible Hoffman and his times.… BUY this book!" — Library Journal.
440 pages | nonfiction | illustrated
$21.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-27-1
$14.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-42-5

FEATURED BOOK
Abbie Hoffman
Steal This Book
For the first time ever, now available in a large format paperback! Published in cooperation with the Abbie Hoffman Activist Foundation. Including two new introductions and a biography of the author.
$14.95 | 318 pages | trade paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-217-X
Politics | Memoir

Margo Howard-Howard with Abbe Michaels
I Was a White Slave in Harlem
Foreword by Quentin Crisp.
A new edition of the underground classic. "The facts as Margo Howard-Howard invents them are entertaining and outrageous." — the Philadelphia Inquirer.
220 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-68-9

FEATURED BOOK
Michael Hotz, editor
Holding the Lotus to the Rock
The Autobiography of Sokei-an, America's First Zen Master
The firsthand account of how Zen took root in America — by the Japanese monk who brought it here in 1906.
$24.95 | cloth | ISBN: 1-56858-248-X | Autobiography | Religion

FEATURED BOOK
Tor Hyams and David Scharff
Fierce.com
The Exclusive Book for Web Elitists
The best, the worst, and weirdest of the worldwide web. And yes, they gave the Four Walls site an award — before we gave them a book contract.
Pop Culture | Americana | Politics/Current Issues
$16.00 | Paperback | 390 pp. | ISBN:1-56858-135-1

FEATURED BOOK
Mike Jay
The Air Loom Gang
The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and His Visionary Madness
"A wonderful book." —Oliver Sacks
$24.00 | hardcover | 320 pages | illustrated | ISBN 1-56858-297-8
History

Carl Jensen and Project Censored. Cartoons by Tom Tomorrow
Censored: The News That Didn't
Make The News — And Why
The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
Introduction by Michael Crichton.
The Internet has called Carl Jensen "the Ralph Nader of the media" for Project Censored's annual list of the year's 25 most underreported stories.
324 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | $14.95 (paperback) ISBN: 1-56858-030-4

FEATURED BOOK
Edited by Merri Lisa Johnson
Jane Sexes It Up
True Confessions of Feminist Desire
"It's not for the straightlaced, but sex-positive feminists will find this a provocative, important anthology that speaks honestly to the question of pleasure and how to get it." —Publishers Weekly
$16.00 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-180-7
Women's Studies

FEATURED BOOK
Edgardo Rodríguez Julía
The Renunciation
Translated by Andrew Hurley.
A masterfully structured historic novel about issues of class and race in Puerto Rico's colonial past, chronicling a prearranged marriage plotted to pacify the slave population and to save Puerto Rico from certain rebellion. The story of a Caribbean Othello.
136 pages | fiction | $18.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-057-6

Peter Kalberkamp
Mea Culpa
"An intriguing tale of the corruption of an all-American youth who goes on to political glory, only to be haunted by his bloody past." — the Los Angeles Reader.
312 pages | graphic work | illustrated | $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-43-3

FEATURED BOOK
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
The Arch of Kerguelen
Voyage to the Islands of Desolation
A celebrated memoirist takes a physical and spiritual journey to the ends of the earth.
$23.00 | 206 pages | hardcover | ISBN: 1-56858-168-8 | History | Memoir

FEATURED BOOK
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
The Black Room at Longwood
Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena
Translated by Patricia Clancy
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
L.A. Times Best Book of 1999
N.Y. Times Notable Book of 1999
Now in paperback!
"Few books have managed to explore the mind and soul of Napoleon Bonaparte during his years of captivity as deeply as The Black Room at Longwood." — Parade
$25.00 | cloth | ISBN: 1-56858-128-9
$14.95 | paper | ISBN: 1-56858-171-8
8-page color insert | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | 316 pp. | History | Biography | Memoir

FEATURED BOOK
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
The Struggle with the Angel
Delacroix, Jacob, and the God of Good and Evil
Translated by Patricia Clancy
"French historian Kauffmann sweeps readers up in his magnificent obsession … A masterpiece of investigation, explication, introspection, and narrative, brilliantly illuminating an artist's mind and a scholar's heart." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
$24.00 | 226 pages | color illustrations | ISBN: 1-56858-243-9
Art | History

John B. Keane
The Bodhrán Makers
"Furious, raging, passionate and … very, very funny." — the Boston Globe. "At once a rueful elegy to a vanished spirit and a comic celebration. For those who wear the green, this book will provide a bounty of tears and laughs." — Publishers Weekly.
256 pages | fiction | $18.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-80-8

FEATURED BOOK
Dr. Barney Kenet and Patricia Lawler
Saving Your Skin
Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment of Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers
"People have to understand the different options for melanoma treatment available today and be involved with their care. That's the purpose of this book, and that's why it is so wonderful." — Alan Houghton, MD, Head, Melanoma Section, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
$16.95 | paperback | 220 pages | color photographs | ISBN: 1-56858-124-6 | Health

FEATURED BOOK
Theodore W. Kheel
The Keys to Conflict Resolution
Proven Methods of Resolving Disputes Voluntarily
"… An intelligent presentation of clear principles for resolving conflict effectively." — Library Journal
$22.00 | cloth | ISBN: 1-56858-134-3
$16.00 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-201-3
Business

FEATURED BOOK
Michael Kiefer
Chasing the Panda
How an Unlikely Pair of Adventurers Won the Race to Capture the Mythical "White Bear"
"The public first became enchanted with pandas in 1936 when Ruth Harkness brought an infant to the United States. Fascinating and compelling … The book is a valuable historical contribution as well as a rousing tale of adventure." —George Schaller, author of The Last Panda and The Year of the Gorilla
$24.95 | 230 pages | hardcover | illustrated
index | ISBN: 1-56858-223-4 | History

FEATURED BOOK
Kathe Koja
Extremities
"Koja turns the typical perceptions of the ugliness of mental illness, obsession, and death into intriguing experiences."-- Detroit Metro Times
$13.95 | paperback | ISBN 1-56858-150-5
Fiction | Science Fiction | Short Stories | Women's Studies

FEATURED BOOK
Steven Kotler
The Angle Quickest for Flight
Now in paperback!
A literary thriller from a Gen X globe-trotting journalist that encompasses skiing, the I Ching, jazz clubs in Jerusalem, and a metaphysical quest for stolen booty hidden beneath the Vatican.
$15.95 | 443 pages | paper | ISBN: 1-56858-194-7
Fiction | Novel

FEATURED BOOK
Peter Krebs
Redhook: Beer Pioneer
"A diverting history of the makers of Redhook — merry pranksters of the brewing business … Krebs does tell the story with flair." -- Kirkus Reviews
$22.00 | cloth | ISBN: 1-56858-106-8 | 224 pp. | Business | History

Herbert Krosney
Deadly Business
Legal Deals and Outlaw Weapons: The Arming of Iran and Iraq, 1975 to the Present
"A chilling report on how Western vendors have, over the past two decades, helped two of the Middle East's more unstable regimes acquire state-of-the-art arsenals.… A timely alert." — Kirkus Reviews.
320 pages | nonfiction | illustrated with maps | index
$30.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-002-9
$13.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-006-1

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