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Todd Farley. Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry. This is a personal narrative of Todd’s experiences working in Standardized educational testing. He began as a part-time grader and gradually moved up the ladder. He worked with the lowest level test graders up to the highest executives of the great testing companies. His experiences are a stinging indictment of the pseudo-science of educational testing. The books is also fall-out-of-the-bed funny. http://makingthegradesbook.com/ This book has been published by Polipoint Press. October, 2009 **** |
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Dr. Daniel Boyarin. Daniel Boyarin is one of the world’s most renowned, original, and admired scholars of ancient Judaism, especially rabbinic and Christian Judaisms. .He is the Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture in the departments of Rhetoric and of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley, as well as director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures there. Far from seeing the Christological ideas as an innovation away from Judaism or as an import from Greek philosophy or Iranian and Gnostic mythology, he will tell a story of how these very notions were shaped within the Judaism of Jesus’s own time and that of his early followers. This argument and perspective is entirely original and will be discussed by scholars world-wide. http://neareastern.berkeley.edu/Boyarin/BoyarinHomePage This book has been contracted with New Press. **** |
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Dr. Jonathan Boyarin. Jonathan Boyarin is one of the world’s most distinguished scholars of Jewish culture. He specializes in Yiddish subjects. Dr. Boyarin has been trained as both a lawyer and an anthropologist. His new project, Portions of the Summer, is a narrative of a summer he spent as part of a minyan for and orthodox synagogue in New York. He brings his humor, his religious understanding, and his anthropological insights into the culture and religion of this experience. http://religion.unc.edu/people/facultydocs/bio-boyarin.shtml This book has been contracted by Fordham University Press ****
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Paul Krassner. Who's to Say What's Obscene. Paul Krassner was founder and editor of The Realist, one of the most popular magazines of the Sixties Counter Culture. Indeed, Krassner is one of the great iconic figures of this period. Unlike many people associated with the Sixties, Paul continues his vision and his unique satirical style. Which is alternately hilarious, biting, vulgar, and always intelligent. The project we are working on includes recent articles and essays by Paul on comedy, drugs, freedom of speech, and other reflections on culture. This book was published in July, 2009 by City Lights Publications. **** |
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Jeffrey Masson. Jeff has had a career that has been both wildly successful and wildly This book has been contracted by Harpercollins. It will be a lead title for Harper to be published in fall, 2010
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Altruistic Armadillos, Zenlike Zebras: a Menagerie of 100 Favorite Animals. Jeff’s collection of fascinating facts and colorful anecdotes of his favorite animals from his years of research on the subject. This book was originally published in 2006 by Ballantine Books. This book was published in February,2010 by Skyhorse Press. **** |
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Peter Rudiak-Gould. Peter is a previously unpublished author. He is working on his Ph.D in anthropology at Oxford University. His book, Surviving Paradise: A Year in the Marshall Islands is a travel adventure narrative of his year teaching English on a small atoll in the Marshall Islands, one of the most remote places on earth. As in the greatest travel literature, the book transcends the genre through the author’s brilliance, the assuredness of his style, and the depth of understanding of the ecology, the culture and the language of this remote location. The subject is timely, because the Marshall Islands are likely to be obliterated by global warming in the near future. (The highest point in the nation is 7 feet above sea level). Peter’s mastery of linguistics is demonstrated by his amusing analysis of how language reflects culture (Marshallese has 170 words associated with coconuts), and his expertise in anthropology comes out in perceptive commentary on such issues as US nuclear testing and Marshallese mythology about ‘America the trickster.’ His prose style is both funny and elegant. It calls to mind the work of Paul Theroux. I believe we have a new and significant voice with Peter. This book was published by Union Square Press in November, 2009. **** |
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Michael Parenti. God and His Demons is a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary critique of organized religion analyzed historically, theologically, economically and politically. Parenti leaves no stone unturned, even attacking such sacred cows as The Dalai Lama. It is scholarly, impassioned, and accessible. Parenti is an independent scholar, known for his progressive ideas. He has written 17 books and over 300 articles. He lectures worldwide. This book was published by Prometheus Books in March, 2010. **** |
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Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman. The Jersey Sting: A True Story of Corrupt Jersey Pols, Money Laundering Rabbis, Black Market Kidneys,and the Informant Who Brought it allDown. This is the story of the largest corruption scandal in New Jersey, the state who's largest industry is corruption. The image of the Orthodox rabbis in handcuffs that appeared on page 1 of The New York Times captured the attention and the imagination of the world. It is unbelievable but the story contains: sleazy pols, corrupt high rolling Orthodox Rabbis, code words out of the Talmud for money, FBI wires, real estate Ponzi schemes, kited checks, cash in a bag and in trunks of cars, even brokering of human kidneys.authors are investigative journalists for The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest daily newspaper. Both were on the team that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news, following the resignation of Gov. James E. McGreevey. They were Pulitzer Prize finalists in 2010 for their coverage of this story. The two also received the National Journalism Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation this year for their work uncovering secret deals, hidden spending and other abuses within the Rutgers University football program. Follow the story as it breaks on The Jersey Sting website. http://www.thejerseysting.com/ This book contracted by St. Martin's Press. A lead title to be released March, 2011
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Kate Tulenko. Passport to Crisis: How America's Jobs are Being Given Away, and How It Hurts Americans and the Rest of the World. The author is coordinator of the World Bank's Africa Health Workforce Program. She has written a book about American importation of health care professionals from developing countries. How it impacts the US job market and how it degrades health care services in third world countries. An original and important book by the foremost authority on the subject. http://faculty.jhsph.edu/Default.cfm?faculty_id=1233 This book contracted by Polipoint Press. It is scheduled for publication in spring, 2011. **** |
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Mary Jo McConahay. Maya Roads. McConahay's narrative of her travels in the Maya rainforests of Central America. The book includes travel narrative, Maya archeology, religion, history, language and culture. Also discussion of the Maya calendar and its prediction that the world will end in 2012. http://www.maryjomcconahay.com/ This book contracted with Chicago Review Press for publication in spring 2011 **** |
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Dr. Edward Green. AIDS and Ideology: An Insider Reveals How American Politics and Ideology Hijacked the World's Most Highly Funded Disease. Edward Green is director of the Harvard AIDS Prevention Research Project, a member of the Presidential Advisor Council for HIV/AIDS, and one of the world's most prominent and respected AIDS researchers. Dr Green wrote an article in the Washington Post stating that the Pope was right, that condoms are not working to prevent AIDS (at least in Africa).Although his arguments for this position were justified by undisputed scientific information, Dr. Green has been the subject of hysterical attacks by US AIDS groups. His story is how science is being hijacked by ideology and how he has struggled to speak truth to power. It also tells us that there is good news about AIDS prevention coming out of Africa. This book contracted with by PoliPoint Press for publication in spring, 2011 **** |
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Jeffrey Masson text, Art Wolfe photography. Of Dogs and Men: A 15,000 Year Romance (tentative title). This book will illuminate with breathtaking photographs from around the world the universal experience of the human-dog relationship. It has been inspired by the spirit of the great book by Edward Steichen, The Family of Man. The book will capture in word and image those universal ties, forged in pre-history, of the bond between humans and dogs. It is, as Masson movingly tells us, the only example of love between two species. World rights contracted with Bloomsbury Press for publication Fall, 2011 **** |
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Carol Odell . Once Upon a Time in the Kitchen: Recipes and Tales from the Children's Classics by Carol Odell. This book was originally from Citrus Press in Australia. It was originally published in 2005. It is a very sweet book with a cute and original concept of offering very simple recipes for foods found in famous children's stories. Example: a recipe for Turkish Delight from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We are representing Citrus Press and are offering international rights for the book (excluding Australia and New Zealand). http://www.citruspress.com.au/ **** |
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Lynda Watanabe McFerrin. Dead Love is first and foremost a Young Adult novel about zombies, the projected first in a series. It is a supernatural thriller in the tradition of Mary Shelley, E.A. Poe, Mikhail Bulgakov and Anne Rice. The story follows a cast of nefarious characters, zombies, ghouls, gangsters and normal humans, as they foil and foul one another's plans and power plays in a conspiracy of global proportions. It's creepy! Lynda Watanabe McFerrin is an award winning novelist, journalist, essayist and teacher. Published by Stone Bridge Press September 2010 **** |
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Apex Predator: Orcas, Humans, and the Origins of Good and Evil. This book is both a summation of Jeff's 30 years of thought about the emotional life of animals and an audacious attempt to integrate those insights into a new interpretation of the origins of evil in human history. The book begins with a comparison of the two supreme creatures at the top of the food chain: Orcas and humans. He points out several incontrovertible facts: 1)There are no documented attacks of humans by Orcas living in the wild. 2) The number of Orcas killed by other Orcas throughout history is zero. 3) The number of Orcas killed by humans is not known, but is many thousands at least. 4) The number of humans killed by other humans in the 20th century alone is somewhere around 180 million. From these facts, the author asks a deceptively simple but immensely profound question: "What happened to us? " World rights contracted with Bloomsbury Press for publication 2012. |
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