THE RESILIENT
GARDENER
Food Production
and Self-Reliance in
Uncertain Times
Carol Deppe
$29.95 • Paper • 336 pages
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Published in 2010
Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for
gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many
fields—resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology,
anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition,
health, and medicine. In The Resilient Gardener, Deppe
extends these principles with detailed information about
growing and using five key crops: potatoes, corn, beans, squash,
and eggs. The book is packed with expert advice on plant
varieties and discusses the best way to grow, prepare, and
store these five “key crops”. Beginner and the most expert
gardeners will find this an invaluable resource, with new
information, recipes, and simple tips for self-sufficiency they
won’t find elsewhere. At its heart, this is a realistic book about
how resilient gardeners (and their gardens) can flourish, even in
challenging times.
One of Amazon.com’s Best of 2010 Gardening Books
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Wild Fermentation
The Flavor, Nutrition, and
Craft of Live-Culture Foods
Sandor Ellix Katz
Foreword by Sally Fallon
$25.00 • Paper • 208 pages
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excluding Korea
Published in 2003
• Featured in The New Yorker, Nov. 22, 2010
• “the fermenting bible” — Newsweek
Bread. Cheese. Wine. Beer. Coffee. Chocolate. Most people
consume fermented foods and drinks every day. For thousands
of years, humans have enjoyed the distinctive flavors and
nutrition resulting from the transformative power of
microscopic bacteria and fungi. Now a growing culinary and
health food movement is making their own saurkraut and
kimchi, kombucha, sourdough bread, kefir and yogurt. Wild
Fermentation is the first cookbook to widely explore the culinary
magic of fermentation.
GROWING, OLDER
A Chronicle of Death, Life,
and Vegetables
Joan Dye Gussow
$17.95 • Paper • 248 pages
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Published in 2010
Legendary food activist Joan Dye Gussow’s memoir begins when
she loses her husband of forty years to cancer and, two weeks
later, finds herself skipping down the street—much to her alarm.
Why wasn’t she grieving in all the normal ways? With humor
and wit, she explains how she stopped worrying about why she
was smiling and went on worrying instead about the possibil-
ity that the world around her was headed off a cliff. But hers is
not a tale, or message, of gloom. Rather it is an affirmation of a
life’s work—and work in general.
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GET UP, STAND UP
Uniting Populists, Energizing
the Defeated and Battling the
Corporate Elite
Bruce E. Levine
$17.95 • Paper • 256 pages
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AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2011
Polls show that the majority of Americans oppose recent US
wars and Wall Street bailouts, yet most remain passive and
appear resigned to powerlessness. In Get Up, Stand Up, Bruce
Levine offers an original and convincing explanation for this
passivity. Many Americans are deeply demoralized by decades
of oppressive elitism, and they have lost confidence that genuine
democracy is possible.
However, the situation is not truly hopeless. History tells
us that for democratic movements to get off the ground,
individuals must recover self-respect, and a people must regain
collective confidence that they can succeed at eliminating
top-down controls. Get Up, Stand Up describes how we
can recover dignity, confidence, and the energy to do battle.
That achievement fills in the missing piece that, until now, has
undermined so many efforts to energize genuine democracy.
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DIARY OF AN
ECO-OUTLAW
An Unreasonable Woman
Breaks the Law for Mother
Earth
Diane Wilson
$17.95 • Paper • 256 pages
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AVAILABLE IN MAY 2011
As George Bernard Shaw once said, “all progress depends on
unreasonable women.” And in Diary of an Eco-Outlaw, the eminently
unreasonable Wilson delivers a no-holds-barred account of how
she—a fourth-generation shrimper, former boat captain, and mother of
five—took a turn at midlife, unable to stand by quietly as she witnessed
abuses of people and the environment. Since then, she has launched
legislative campaigns, co-founded a women’s anti-war group, CodePink,
demonstrated most dramatically against BP Oil executives, and taken
on Union Carbide on her way to becoming a world-class activist
against corporate injustice, war, and environmental crimes.
Jailed more than fifty times for civil disobedience, Wilson has stood
up for environmental justice, and peace, around the world. This is her
incredible story.
Memoir & Narratives
KILLING THE CRANES
Beyond Afghanistan’s
Unwinnable Wars
Edward Girardet
$26.95 • Cloth • 320 pages
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AVAILABLE IN SEPTEMBER
2011
Leading international journalist Edward Girardet has been a witness
to more than three decades of upheaval in Afghanistan. In Killing the
Cranes, he recollects the events he has seen unfold in Afghanistan—
beginning with the Red Army occupation in 1979, the collapse of the
communist regime, the bitter Battle for Kabul in the mid-1990s, the
Taliban takeover, and the post-9/11 US invasion. With tremendous
insight and courage, he examines not only the leaders and their visions,
the resulting internal struggles for power and the deep divisions within
the population, but also the invaders and their tactics, and the attending
destruction and death visited on the Afghan people.
By relating his insights, Girardet hopes to bring those who face the
conundrum that is Afghanistan to the final understanding why any
attempt by the US (or any outside nation) to govern there is ultimately
doomed to fail.
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sex and
the river styx
Edward Hoagland
$27.50 • Cloth • 272 pages
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“The best essayist of my generation”—John Updike
Admired by a pantheon of America’s greatest writers and considered
one of our most prolific essayists, Edward Hoagland is in a class of his
own. He came of age during our country’s literary heyday, learned
to write the old-fashioned way—through direct experience in love,
travel, and immersion in the natural world—and then dedicated
decades of his life to prose that is not only powerful, but truly
original. Now, more than fifty years after he first began publishing,
Hoagland brings his acuity to bear in this latest collection of essays.
His prose shines with the energy and intelligence that has
characterized his work for decades and the wisdom of a man
whose curiosity about the world has given him, and us, a lifetime of
stories. Sex and the River Styx is an elegy for the marvels Hoagland
has witnessed and wondered at over the course of his life—and the
wildness of nature, of love, and of loss.
Amazon.com’s Best of February 2011 book
The color of
atmosphere
One Doctor’s Journey In and
Out of Medicine
Maggie Kozel, MD
$17.95 • Paper • 256 pages
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The Color of Atmosphere follows Kozel as a young woman setting off on
a seventeen-year professional journey, as she learns to negotiate the
extraordinary pressures of attending an elite medical school, working
long hours, being on call, and treating other people’s children while she
raises her own.
Then, after nearly two decades in the medical field at what should
have been the height of her career, Kozel walks away. With warmth,
humor, and, above all, honesty, The Color of Atmosphere is a page-turner
destined to appeal to those who work in the medical profession, those
considering it, and those who simply love a captivating read about the
kind of choices we all face during the course of a career.
The Color of Atmosphere is both an indictment of health care in America
from a doctor who spent decades in the trenches and a deeply
personal story of one woman’s unpredictable journey to find her life’s
meaning through service to others.
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CHASING CHILES
Hot Spots Along the Pepper Slow gardening
Trail A No-Stress Philosophy for
All Senses and All Seasons
Kurt Michael Friese,
Kraig Kraft, Gary Paul Felder Rushing
Nabhan
$17.95 • Paper • 256 pages $29.95 • Paper • 256 pages

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Chasing Chiles looks at both the future of place-based foods and
the effects of climate change on agriculture through the lens of the
chile pepper—from the farmers who cultivate this iconic crop to the
cuisines and cultural traditions in which peppers play a huge role.
Chasing Chiles is not an archetypal book about climate change, with facts
and computer models delivered by a distant narrator. On the contrary,
these three dedicated chileheads look and listen, sit down to eat, and
get stories and recipes from on the ground—in farmers’ fields local ca-
fes, and the desert-scrub hillsides. From the Sonoran Desert to Santa
Fe and St. Augustine (the two oldest cities in the US), from the marshes
of Avery Island in Cajun Louisiana to the thin limestone soils of the
Yucatan, this book looks at how and why climate change will continue
to affect our palates and our producers, and how it already has.
Doing something slowly means savoring what you do. However, in just
a few generations, we’ve gone from eating mostly home-cooked food
and gardening with mostly local resources to a fast-food culture and
cookie-cutter “mow-and-blow” landscapes filled with unproductive
and high-maintenance plants from afar. Slow Gardening to the rescue!
Inspired by Slow Food, an international movement that promotes local
food systems and biological and cultural diversity. In much the same
way, a slow-gardening approach can help us all appreciate and enjoy our
gardens more, year in and year out.
Well-known Southern gardener Felder Rushing offers a commonsense,
friendly approach that will appeal to gardeners no matter where they
live. Slow Gardening is more than a bunch of tips for easy gardening;
it’s about thinking “long haul” and “taking it easy.” Life has lots of
pressures—why include them in the garden?

Gardening & Sustainable Food

COOKING CLOSE TO
HOME
A Year of Seasonal Recipes
Diane Imrie, Richard
Jarmusz
$34.95 • Paper • 240 pages
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designed to follow the seasons. Whether you are a home gardener, a
farmers’ market regular, or a member of a community-supported agri-
culture program, this cookbook will serve as a seasonal guide to using
the foods available in your region.

Each recipe includes useful “Harvest Hints” that explain how to find,
purchase, prepare, and preserve fresh and seasonal ingredients. Within
each chapter you will find information about sustainable food, small
family farms, and how to reduce your carbon footprint by buying local
foods.

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 ADOBE HOMES
HOLY SHIT
FOR ALL CLIMATES
Managing Manure to Save
Simple,Affordable, and
Mankind
Earthquake-Resistant
Gene Logsdon Natural Building Techniques
$17.50 • Paper • 272 pages Lisa Schroder,Vince
Ogletree
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$34.95 • Paper • 216 pages
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PUBLISHED IN 2010 PUBLISHED IN 2010

In his insightful new book, contrarian farmer Gene Logsdon provides Drawing on the experience of more than fifty major adobe projects
the inside story of manure — our greatest, yet most misunderstood, since1993, Adobe Homes for All Climates describes Adobe Building
natural resource. He begins by lamenting a modern society that not Systems’ patented reinforcement and scaffolding systems, showing
only throws away both animal and human manure—worth billions readers how to construct adobe homes more easily and safely, and with
of dollars in fertilizer value—but that spends a staggering amount of superior strength, durability, structural integrity, and aesthetic appeal,
money to do so. This wastefulness makes even less sense as the supply as compared to earthen homes of the past. The book is ideal both for
of mined or chemically synthesized fertilizers dwindles and their cost first-time do-it-yourselfers and for experienced adobe builders seeking
skyrockets. In fact, he argues, if we do not learn how to turn our to improve their craft.
manures into fertilizer to keep food production in line with increasing
population, our civilization, like so many that went before it, will
inevitably decline.
With his trademark humor, and his years of experience writing about
both farming and waste management, Logsdon artfully describes how
to manage all kinds of manure to make fertilizer and humus.

Still available in select territories

Bye Bye Miss
DISASTER ON THE American Empire
HORIZON Neighborhood Patriots,
High Stakes, High Risks and Backcountry Rebels, and
The Story Behind the Their Underdog Crusade to
Deepwater Well Blowout Redraw America’s Political
Bob Cavnar Map
by Bill Kauffman
$14.95 • Paper • 248 pages
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PUBLISHED IN 2010 PUBLISHED IN 2010

Disaster on the Horizon delves into the worst oil well accident in US
history, which killed eleven men and led to the current environmental
and economic catastrophe on the Gulf Coast. With thirty years in oil
and gas operations, insider Bob Cavnar provides a candid, engaging,
and chilling look at the industry, its resistance to regulation, and the
government concessions that are now putting people and the coastlines
in jeopardy. He brings the industry’s technology and people to life,
delivering the untold story of the blowout, response, and decisions
made by BP, Transocean, and the US government. Ultimately, Cavnar
charts a crucial course for how to avoid these disasters in the future.
Bye Bye, Miss American Empire traces the deep historical roots of the
secessionist spirit and introduces us to the often radical, sometimes
quixotic, and highly charged movements, large and small, that want to
decentralize and re-localize power. Engaging, illuminating, even some-
times troubling, Bye Bye, Miss American Empire is a must-read for those
taking the pulse of the nation.

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