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Friday, May 02, 2008

National Publicity

Agate B2

Lasting Contribution: How to Think, Plan, and Act to Accomplish Meaningful Work
Tad Waddington
1-932841-29-6; 978-1-932841-29-9, $11.00, Fall 2007
•Lasting Contribution is the winner of an Eric Hoffer Award, given out each year for “Excellence in Independent Publishing.” Lasting Contribution took third place overall, first place in the "Small Press" category, as announced in the April 29, 2008 issue of Shelf Awareness.
•Lasting Contribution has also received a USA Book News Best Books Award and an Axiom Business Books bronze medal.

The Kimchi Matters: Global Business and Local Politics in a Crisis-Driven World
Marvin Zonis, Dan Lefkovitz, and Sam Wilkin
1-932841-04-0; 978-1-932841-04-6, $15.95
•"Rather than try to turn away from globalization, we need to do globalization better. This book is a collection of case studies from around the world where business has had to learn the importance of local politics and other local factors. It contains many useful lessons for companies that wish to trade overseas."—Director Books: Keeping Doctors Informed (Australian Institute of Company Directors)


Agate Surrey

Eat Out, Eat Right: The Guide to Healthier Restaurant Eating 
Hope S. Warshaw
1-57284-092-7; 978-1-57284-092-8, $12.95, Winter 2008
•“A book you can't afford to dine without.”— Diane Welland, M.S., R.D in Environmental Nutrition, May 
•“Now in its third edition, the must-have, compact and easy-to-carry book is available for anyone who wants to eat healthier restaurant meals."—CaloriesCount.com


AlterNet

Young Dick Cheney: Great American
Bruce Kluger and David Slavin
0-9752724-2-X; 978-0-9752724-2-8, $12.95, Fall 2008
•"Young Dick Cheney must be riveting. Salman Rushdie was reading the satirical bio in the middle of the mosh pit when Jihae played at Plumm. Authors Bruce Kluger and David Slavin, the National Public Radio satirists, were flattered but not surprised. ‘Of course Salman would be glued to a book about Cheney,’ Slavin quipped. ‘After all, he did write The Satanic Verses."’—New York Daily News, April 29
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/04/29/2008-04-29_untitled__dish.html
•“What do Arianna Huffington, Keith Olbermann, Lewis Black, Phil Donahue and Mel Brooks have in common? They all love Young Dick Cheney. Not the grumpy old Prince of Darkness, socked away in his secured, undisclosed location somewhere near Washington—but the adorable and misunderstood hero of our brand new book.—From an announcement in The Huffington Post, April 25
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kluger-and-david-slavin/its-a-boy_b_98637.html


Atlantic Monthly Press

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
William J. Bernstein
0-87113-979-0; 978-0-87113-979-5, $30.00, Spring 2008 
•“As William J. Bernstein makes clear in his entertaining and greatly enlightening book A Splendid Exchange, [trade] has been a major force in driving the whole history of humankind. . . . The history of global trade is so long and so vast that Mr. Bernstein could have easily produced a toe-breaker of a book. Happily he has not. By treating many aspects thematically rather than strictly chronologically, he shows in fewer than 400 pages of readable type how people and nations have faced the same problems over and over and often solved them the same way. . . . Mr. Bernstein is a fine writer and knows how to tell a great story well. . . . A Splendid Exchange is a splendid book.” —John Steele Gordon, The New York Times, April 30
•“Superb . . . [A] significant contribution . . . The chronological range of Bernstein’s book is staggering. . . . A Splendid Exchange is a work of which Adam Smith and Max Weber would have approved. And it is all the more interesting because it is written by someone who is deeply knowledgeable about and active in the financial world yet finds the time to write graceful and insightful history with a delicate display of scholarship that conceals a vast erudition. What really marks Bernstein out is his talent in understanding, and then explaining, international commercial linkages.”      —Paul Kennedy, Foreign Affairs


Counterpoint

Late Nights On Air: A Novel
Elizabeth Hay
1-58243-408-5; 978-1-58243-408-7, $24.00, Spring 2008
•Publicity information
•New York Time Book Review scheduled to run June 1.

Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand
Benita Eisler
1-58243-381-X; 978-1-58243-381-3, $16.95 
•Featured in New York Times Paperback Row, May 11.


Demos Medical Publishing

Women, Work, and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working Girlfriend!
Rosalind Joffe, M.ED., and Joan Friedlander
1-932603-68-9; 978-1-932603-68-2, $18.95, Fall 2008
•“A little book with lots of useful advice; recommended.”—Library Journal
•Author interview on New York Times blog: http://shiftingcareers.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/working-while-chronically-ill/


Healthy Travel Media

Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody's Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Care Abroad
Josef Woodman
0-9791079-2-X; 978-0-9791079-2-4, $22.95, Fall 2008
•The August issue of Fitness magazine will feature an article on medical tourism, citing Patients Beyond Borders extensively.


Key Porter Books

Gymboree Shapes
Christine Coirault
1-55470-040-Xv; 978-1-55470-040-0, $6.95, Spring 2008
Gymboree Colors
Christine Coirault
1-55470-039-6; 978-1-55470-039-4, $6.95, Spring 2008
Gymboree Play & Learn
Roni Cohen Leiderman and Wendy Masi
1-55470-033-7; 978-1-55470-033-2, $24.95, Spring 20008
•Turtles and Tutus blog review and giveaway
http://tutusandturtles.blogspot.com/2008/04/gymboree-books-giveaway.html


MacAdam/Cage

AK47: The Story of a Gun
Michael Hodges
1-59692-286-9; 978-1-59692-286-0, $24.00, Spring 2008
•“Though not for the feint of heart, this pop-history page-turner should appeal to anyone interested in military history or international conflict.—Publishers Weekly 

Pelican Road
Howard Bahr
1-59692-289-3; 978-1-59692-289-1, $25.00, Spring 2008
•“After penning a highly praised trio of Civil War novels…Bahr turns to the 1940s and a close-knit group of railroad men. Bahr, a former railroad man himself, is intimately familiar with that world (“an alien, masculine world with a language all its own”) and here deploys many lovingly detailed passages describing the mechanics and machinery…Running right underneath the suspenseful narrative is a beautifully wrought view of the world as a lonely and unforgiving place.—Booklist, May 15

No One Tells Everything
Rae Meadows
1-59692-294-X; 978-1-59692-294-5, $13.00, Spring 2008 
•Reviewed in Publishers Weekly, April 21


Menasha Ridge Press

The Quest for Kaitiakitanga: The Ancient Maori Secret from New Zealand that Could Save the Earth
Richard Bangs
0-89732-658-X; 978-0-89732-658-2, $16.95, Winter 2008
•Featured on Travelocity:
http://windowseat.travelocity.com/2008/04/img_altkaitiakitangajpg_srchttpwindowseattravelocitycomkaitiakitangajpg_width200_height150_how_kaitiakitanga_can_save_the_world.html


Sierra Club Books

Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents
Jim Malusa
1-57805-141-X; 978-1-57805-141-0, $16.95, Spring 2008 
•Into Thick Air will be featured in the New York Times summer travel roundup, June 1.


Soft Skull Press

Black Flies: A Novel
Shannon Burke
1-59376-191-0; 978-1-59376-191-2, $14.95, Spring 2008
•New York Times Book Review scheduled to run May 25

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Regional Publicity 


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MacAdam/Cage

AK47: The Story of a Gun
Michael Hodges
1-59692-286-9; 978-1-59692-286-0, $24.00, Spring 2008
•Reviewed in Time Out Chicago, April 17-23 issue


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AlterNet

Young Dick Cheney: Great American
Bruce Kluger and David Slavin
0-9752724-2-X; 978-0-9752724-2-8, $12.95, Fall 2008
•Young Dick Cheney was #4 on the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Everything Entertainment list for the week of April 21-27.


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Key Porter Books

Rich by Thirty: A Young Adult's Guide to Financial Success
Leslie Scorgie
1-55470-038-8; 978-1-55470-038-7, $12.95, Spring 2008
•Mercer Island Reporter author interview, April 24 - “Rich by Thirty, a 20-something is already there: Author of book talks to Island youth about financial literacy.”

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