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Specials and terms for retailers:

• +3% OR free freight
• 1-9=40%, 10+=43%, 50+=46%
• text/short: 1-9 copies=40%, 10+ copies=20%
• rep’s picks: 3+ copies= 46%, 5+copies= 48%

Current publicity/backlist bestsellers:

Watching What We Eat by Kathleen Collins (978-0826429308, $24.95, hardcover)

• Wall Street Journal review June 6 2009
• New York Times review May 29
• Time Magazine review May 14

Fall 2009 Highlights:

Norman Corwin’s One World Flight ed by Michael Keith and Mary Ann Watson (9780826434111, 232 Pages, hardcover, $24.95)(2)

• rep’s pick: 3=46%, 5=48%
• journal of radio’s poet laureate
• Michael C Keith is a faculty member at Boston College

Ministry of Defeat by Richard North (9781441169976, 280 Pages, hardcover, $29.95)(4)

• critical account of UK’s involvement in Iraq

This Sentence is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes by Peter Cave (9781847062208, 232 Pages, paperback, $17.95)(5)

• entertaining introduction to logic and reasoning, packed with puzzles and thought experiments

The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television ed by Tiffany Potter and CW Marshall (9780826438041, 288 Pages, paperback, $24.95)(6)

• first collection of critical essays on HBO’s The Wire
• local contributors: David Alff, University of Pennsylvania; Kathleen LeBesco, Marymount Manhattan College;  Stephen Lucasi, University of Connecticut;  James Peterson, Bucknell University; Jason Read, University of Southern Maine; Lynne Viti, Wellesley College; Afaa M. Weaver, Simmons College (Boston, MA)

America’s Film Legacy by Daniel Eagan (9780826429773, 688 Pages, paperback, $24.95)(7)

• rep’s pick: 3=46%, 5=48%
• previously announced: backorders cancelled

Looking for Calvin and Hobbes by Nevin Martell (9780826429841, 256 Pages, hardcover, $24.95)(8)

• rep’s pick: 3=46%, 5=48%
• history of the strip, and creator Watterson’s withdrawal after it ended in ‘95
• author lives in Washington, DC

The Sexual Politics of Meat – 20th Anniversary Edition by Carol Adams (9781441173287, 320 Pages, paperback, $19.95)(9)

• 20th Anniversary Edition includes a new preface by the author, discussing new developments in the field and answering some of her critics
• author lives in Dallas, but will do events on the east coast
• previous edition ISBN: 9780826411846; more books by Carol Adams from Continuum

I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher’s Guide to Wine by Roger Scruton (9781847065087, 224 Pages, hardcover, $26.95)(10)

• Roger Scruton is  visiting Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University

Last Chance: Roads of Freedom IV by Jean-Paul Sartre (9781847065513, 240 Pages, paperback, $19.95)(11)

• available in english for the first time

How to Be an Existentialist by Gary Cox (9781441188434, 136 Pages, hardcover, $19.95)(12)

101 Great Philosophers by Madson Pirie (9780826423863, 224 Pages, paperback, $14.95(12)

The Arctic Gold Rush: The New Race for Tomorrow’s Natural Resources by Roger Howard (9781441181107, 224 Pages, hardcover, $25.95)(13)

• by the author of The Oil Hunters (9781847252326, 224 Pages, hardcover $27.95)

Jerry Lee Lewis, Lost and Found by Joe Bonomo (9780826429667, 224 Pages, hardcover, $19.95)(16)

• biography of rock/country music great

Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll by David Kirby (9780826429650, 224 Pages, hardcover, $19.95)(17)

• a concise, evocative, and thoroughly researched study of one of the great rock’n'roll pioneers

Mythology, Madness, and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism, by Markus Gabriel and Slavoj Žižek  (9781441191052, 208 Pages, hardcover, $23.95)(24)

• A hugely important book that rediscovers three crucial, but long overlooked themes in German idealism

Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments by David Coates (9781441126931, 224 Pages, paperback, $21.95)(25)

• presents the conservative and liberal arguments on eight key policy issues

Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen by David Masciotra (9780826425058, 288 Pages, paperback, $21.95)(26)

• a powerful and engaging study of Springsteen’s work and activism

Global Warming: The Real Catastrophe by Richard North and Christopher Booker (9781441110527, 256 Pages, hardcover, $29.95)(27)

• scientific rejection of perceived cause of global warming
• rep’s pick: 3+ copies= 46%, 5+copies= 48%

Putin’s Oil: The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia by Martin Sixsmith (9781441199683, 288 Pages, hardcover, $24.95)(31)

• investigates the complex world of Kremlin energy politics
• rep’s pick: 3+ copies= 46%, 5+copies= 48%

Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present by Sytze Steenstra (9780826441683, 320 Pages, paperback, $24.95)(35)

• first book to offer a full account of Byrne’s sprawling artistic portfolio

Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics by Jacques Rancière, translated by Steven Corcoran (9781847064455, 208 Pages, hardcover, $19.95)(38)

• A brand new collection of Jacques Rancière’s writings on art and politics.

No Time To Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-hour News Cycle by Charles S. Feldman and Howard Rosenberg (9781441112354, 240 Pages, paperback, $16.95)(44)

• measures lasting fallout from the 24-hour news cycle
• hardcover ISBN 9780826429315: great review attention from connected authors

Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing by Roland Huntford (9781441134011, 456 Pages, paperback, $19.95)(45)

• great seller in hardcover (ISBN: 9781847252364)

Backlist Highlights:

33 1/3 Series: click here

Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companions: click here

Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (33 1/3) by Carl Wilson (Continuum, 9780826427885, $12.95, Paper)

• Colbert Report, 2/28/09
• impromptu pitch at MTV Music Awards 
• New York Magazine (review), 12/08

33 1/3 Series: Lets Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson (9780826427885, $10.95, paper):

• #4 in New York Magazine’s Top 10 books of the year edging out Roberto Bolano’s 2666 by a spot. (And by about 1000 pages.)
• The Telegraph (UK) - “The year’s most essential book on music”
• Andy Battaglia at the Onion AV Club picked Let’s Talk About Love as his runner-up for favorite book of the year (they only allow their editors 2 selections.)
• KEXP (Seattle) Best of 2008: (national following online) “may be my favorite book of the year, period.”

Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen [9780826429339, $19.95, Paper]

• review in Dec. 1st issue of Library Journal

The Oil Hunters [9781847252326, $26.95, Hardcover]

• Essay by Roger Howard called “An Ode to Oil” ran in the Wall Street Journal weekend edition 12/08 (front page of Arts & Leisure section)

Two Planks and a Passion [9781847252364, $29.95, Hardcover]

• “In his earlier books, Huntford chronicled the race to the South Pole (”The Last Place on Earth”) and wrote biographies of Ernest Shackleton and Fridtjof Nansen.  ”Two Planks” seems a natural progression for him…Huntford deserves praise for bringing together a lot of rich material.” –New York Times Book Review
• Full page in New York Times Book Review’s Holiday Books issue Dec 2008