Dear Paradigm Patrons,
We are proud to announce the upcoming sixth anniversary of the founding of Paradigm Publishers. In less than six short years, we have published over 275 titles and have a topical and timely forthcoming list including the following books for Fall 2009:
The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama by Tom Hayden
Out of Crisis: Rethinking Our Financial Markets by David A. Westbrook
Postcapitalism: Moving Beyond Ideology in America's Economic Crises by Raphael Sassower
We also offer some relief from the economic crisis:
From Cronkite to Colbert: the Evolution of Broadcast News by Geoffrey D. Baym
Vibrations: A Memoir by David Amram
Talent Abounds: Profiles of Master Teachers and Peak Performers by Robert F. Arnove
We have a great post-election year cluster of titles including:
President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union by John K. Wilson
On Appreciating Congress: The People's Branch by Louis Fisher
Winning the Presidency 2008 by William J. Crotty
Red to Blue: Congressman Chris Van Hollen and Grassroots Politics by Sanford Gottlieb
2009 is a big year in core textbooks at Paradigm with new editions of these important texts:
Understanding Law in a Changing Society: Third Edition, Revised and Updated by Bruce E. Althschuler, et al.
Sport in Contemporary Society, Eighth Edition by D. Stanley Eitzen
Reading & Writing for Civic Literacy: The Critical Citizen's Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric, Brief Edition for a New Political Era by Donald Lazere
Families in Context: Second Edition, Revised and Updated by Gene H. Starbuck
Social Movements 1768-2008, Second Edition by Charles Tilly & Lesley Wood
Paradigm now publishes three journals: Sociological Focus, The Journal of Applied Social Science, and Anthropology Now. We welcome learning of journals that need a new publishing home and invite you to watch for new journal announcements here in coming times.
We are proud to announce recent Paradigm reviews in such places as The New York Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, and David Brooks' column in The New York Times.
We continue our emphasis on an ambitious foreign rights program and plan to attend the Frankfurt Book Fair. in 2009. We also look forward to seeing you at the International Studies Association, American Educational Research Association, Law & Society, American Sociology Association, American Political Science Association, and American Anthropological Association annual conferences later this spring and 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! And do your part to conquer the economic crisis-buy progressive books by independent publishers!
Best wishes,
Dean Birkenkamp
Founder and Publisher
P.S. Our Fall catalog describing all our forthcoming titles is now available in pdf format on our Website for easy browsing and downloading. Just click on the Fall 2009 catalogue listing on the left-hand side of our home page.