Irrepressible
The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford
Leslie Brody

Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, mischief-maker, muckraker. J.K. Rowling calls her her “most influential writer.” Those who knew her best simply called her Decca. Born into one of Britain’s most famous aristocratic families, she eloped with Winston Churchill’s nephew as a teenager. Their marriage severed ties with her privilege, a rupture exacerbated by the life she lead for seventy-eight years. Yoked to every important event for nearly all of the twentieth century, Decca not only was defined by the history she witnessed, but by bearing witness, helped to define that history.

"Defying the odds, Leslie Brody has produced an excellent biography. Brody has made the world a better place by telling [Mitford's] saga so skillfully." —San Francisco Chronicle

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-453-7 | Cloth | $28

The Solitary Vice
Against Reading
MIKITA BROTTMAN

“The Solitary Vice will make you rethink your own relation to reading. Brottman is wonderful at reminding us what a very complicated act—of fantasy, recompense, adventurism and (sometimes) perversity—reading a book can be.” —Laura Kipnis

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-187-5 | Trade Paper Original  | $14.95

Writers in Paris
Literary Lives in the City of Light
DAVID BURKE

Literary detective David Burke tracks down the Parisian haunts of dozens of writers—and the characters they created—and tells us their stories. With maps, descriptions, and photographs of the writers and their city, Writers in Paris is both a fascinating read and a fresh way of looking at a city unparalleled in its role in literature.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-157-8 | Cloth | $32.50

Ecotherapy
Healing with Nature in Mind
EDITED BY LINDA BUZZELL AND CRAIG CHALQUIST
FOREWORD BY DAVID W. ORR

Ecotherapy is the first comprehensive exploration of the burgeoning field of nature-based psychotherapy. As modern psychiatric practices grow increasingly expensive and questionable, this book offers practitioners and interested lay readers a spectrum of safe, effective alternative approaches backed by a growing body of research.

SIERRA CLUB BOOKS | 978-1-57805-161-8 | Trade Paper | $16.95

Who’s Your Mama?
The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers
EDITED BY YVONNE BYNOE
FOREWORD BY REBECCA WALKER

Centered on the largely untold perspectives of the majority of American women whose unique and sometimes unconventional family structures impact our country, Who’s Your Mama? explores the intersection between motherhood and race, class, sexuality, and politics of a racially and economically diverse group of Generation X and Hip-Hop Generation women.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-239-1 | Trade Paper | $15.95

The Existential Jesus
JOHN CARROLL

Upending Christianity’s popular notion of Jesus as the comforter and the Lord and savior, John Carroll introduces us to a surprising and enlightening portrait of the West’s most influential figure in history through a radical reexamination of the Gospel of Mark, and identifies the philosophical and cultural significance of Jesus in the modern world based on his life, actions, and reflections.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-465-0 | Trade Paper | $15.95

Dead Silence
Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail
BOB COEN and ERIC NADLER

An in-depth look into the new biological arms race, Dead Silence conveys the inside story of the U.S. anthrax attacks and their connection to the existence of a frightening global germ warfare underworld. Coen and Nadler’s investigations take them across four continents and inside classified labs, revealing a web of secrecy, corporate greed, and global manipulation.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-509-1 | Cloth | $25.00

Sleeping Where I Fall
A Chronicle
PETER COYOTE

In his energetic, funny, and intelligent memoir, Peter Coyote relives his fifteen-year ride through the heart of counterculture, from his privileged life on the East Coast to the self-imposed poverty of The Diggers—a West Coast anarchic movement. Coyote casts an honest and unsentimental eye on the costs of his pursuit of absolute freedom and the lessons he learned.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-496-4 | Trade Paper | $17.95

The Far Corner
Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature
JOHN DANIEL

In this collection of essays, Daniel beams a light on the far corner of America, surveying nature and culture from the Pacific Northwest, spinning narratives that seek to define how he belongs to the land and to life itself.
“John Daniel has quietly established himself over the past decade as one of the premier writers on the West Coast.” —Bloomsbury Review

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-493-3 | Cloth | $25.00

Coming of Age at the End of History
CAMILLE DE TOLEDO

Brash twenty-something de Toledo burst onto the Parisian intellectual scene with this, his brilliantly incisive manifesto. Examining present-day counterculture from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present, he asks what it is, exactly, that his generation is protesting against and contemplates how revolt against Western capitalistic values has been neutralized since the time of Fukuyama’s 1989 article “The End of History.”

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-197-4 | Trade Paper Original | $14.95

Life with Sudden Death
A Tale of Moral Hazard and Medical Misadventure
Michael Downing

Michael Downing was three when his father died suddenly and inexplicably. No autopsy was performed. The family diagnosis was God’s will. Alarmed, Downing pursued a diagnosis and discovered he had inherited a mutant protein from his father, and that the first symptom would likely be his sudden death.

Life with Sudden Death explores a simple question: Who can you trust with your life?

“I received a copy of your book today and couldn’t put it down. Effective immediately, I am making your book required reading each year for our trainees (post-graduate doctors training to be arrhythmia specialists) . . . it will make them better doctors.” —William H. Maisel, MD, MPH, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-615-9 | Trade Paper | $15.95

The Vinyl Countdown
The Album from LP to iPod and Back Again
TRAVIS ELBOROUGH

Ever since the arrival of the vinyl record in 1948, the album has acted as the soundtrack to our lives. But in the age of digital downloads, this cultural phenomenon faces an uncertain future. Moving chronologically through topics like the LP’s history and sleeve designs, The Vinyl Countdown is an idiosyncratic tribute to a beloved icon of pop culture.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-237-7 | Trade Paper | $16.95