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:
Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics
By Paul Street
Ambushed! A Cartoon History of the George W. Bush Administration
By Jim Morin and Walter C. Clemens, Jr.
The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism
By Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin
Against Schooling: For an Education that Matters
By Stanley Aronowitz
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