Dear Paradigm Patrons,

We are proud to announce the fifth anniversary of the founding of Paradigm Publishers. In just five short years, we have published over 250 titles and have an excellent forthcoming list including the following books for Fall 2008:

We also have a great election year cluster of titles including:

On the Presidency
By Thomas E. Cronin

Spinner-in-Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves
By Stephen J. Farnsworth

The New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America with Women's Values
By Kathryn Adam and Charles Derber

Mousepads, Shoe Leather, and Hope: Lessons from the Howard Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics
By Zephyr Teachout and Tom Streeter

2008 is a big year in core textbooks at Paradigm as well:

A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology
By Jeffrey C. Alexander and Kenneth Thompson

Parties, Interest Groups, and Political Campaigns
By Matthew J. Burbank, and Ronald J. Hrebnar and Robert C. Benedict

Sociology of North American Sport: Eighth Edition
By D. Stanley Eitzen and George H. Sage

Just Methods
By Alison Jaggar

The Urban World: Eighth Edition
By J. John Palen

Plus watch for new editions of our best-selling core texts:

Human Societies: Eleventh Edition
By Patrick Nolan and Gerhard Lenski

Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy: Second Edition by Donald Lazere

Paradigm also now publishes three journals: Sociological Focus, The Journal of Applied Social Science, and a new Anthropology journal, Anthropology Now. We welcome news of journals that need a new publishing home.

Looking ahead, you can expect to see Paradigm advertising in the places you like to read and publish, and we hope you caught our authors on programs including Now, ABC Sunday Morning, The O'Reilly Factor, and NPR's Weekend Edition.

We continue our emphasis on an ambitious foreign rights program and plan to attend the Frankfurt Book Fair.

We were pleased to see you at recent conferences including the International Studies Association, American Educational Research Association, Left Forum, Midwest Political Science Association, Western Social Science Association, and the Cultural Studies Association. We look forward to seeing you at the American Sociology Association, American Political Science Association, and American Anthropological Association annual conferences later this fall.

Please let us know how we can serve you better as a Paradigm author, reader, classroom user, or in any of your other relevant capacities. We look forward to continuing the Paradigm success story and to extending it much more broadly in the future. Please help us spread the word!

Best wishes,

Dean Birkenkamp
Founder and Publisher