NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2010
"A vigorous, well-written multicultural history of the West as it really was."
History in the Howard Zinn school, with working people taking the fore, finally acknowledged for their contributions in settling the frontier.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2010
"A sturdy, detailed work of history that will appeal to business readers as well as aficionados of railroading and the Old West."
The West wasn't won with six guns alone. Well-greased skillets helped, too, especially in the hands of Fred Harvey's cooks.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 16, 2010
"A fascinating read for any audience and essential history for anyone interested in the roots of psychedelia."
Blue Cheer. Window Pane. Orange Sunshine. Maui Wowie. These were the brand names of the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s and '70s, a culture led by the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2010
"A brief, enthralling history of a specific place and time, and of an enduring American idea."
The story of America's first hippie commune, as well as American utopianism from the Mayflower to the 1960s and beyond.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 3, 2010
"A book of uncompromising honesty and moral beauty."
Appellate lawyer Dow (Law/Univ. of Houston Law Center;
America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great, 2009, etc.) delivers an unsparing indictment of capital punishment in America and the legal system that enables it.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 2, 2010
"Sure to appeal to armchair rogues and, like Blood Diamond, cinema-ready."
Exciting, well-crafted tale of the "School of Turin," a gang of master thieves who looted the putatively theft-proof Antwerp Diamond Center.
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