This exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: “None shall emerge unscathed.” Placing their work within the wider alternative film and downtown post–punk scenes, Deathtripping offers detailed analyses of the movement’s films alongside interviews with the filmmakers and their collaborators.

SOFT SKULL PRESS| 978-1-93336-895-5 | Trade Paper | $18.95

Bob Schildgen answers real-world questions about being environmentally friendly in this compilation of the best of his “Hey Mr. Green” column in Sierra magazine. From the greenest oil company to whether to buy your beer in cans or bottles, Hey Mr. Green provides practical advice—and a laugh—for everyone trying to do their part for the environment.

SIERRA CLUB BOOKS | 978-1-57805-143-4 | Trade Paper | $14.95

A manual for the soulful city dweller traversing the wonders and dangers of the concrete jungle, Urban Soul Warrior is about becoming aware of our urban surroundings, and using that awareness to live fully, completely, and magnificently. Simone provides simple and effective insights, advice, and creative exercises that are designed to infuse readers’ lives with rich meaning and beauty.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-212-4 | Trade Paper | $15.95

What do a clothesline, a locally grown tomato, and a microchip have in common? They’re all ordinary things that, with widespread use, can have an extraordinary impact in the fight against global warming, one of the most urgent challenges facing life on Earth in this century.

SIERRA CLUB BOOKS | 978-1-57805-145-8 | Trade Paper | $9.95

The New York Times called Wallace Stegner, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize, the “dean of Western writers,” and fellow writer Edward Abbey praised him as “the only living American writer worthy of the Nobel.” This collection of a lifetime of Stegner’s letters, edited by his son Page, provides a long-awaited look into the life and mind of one of America’s most important writers.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-446-9 | TRADE PAPER | $16.95

Not only a “how to” but also a “why to,” Dam Nation is timely and pressing because “[t]he politics of water—as this brilliant anthology makes clear—are the politics of human survival. Read this, and believe me, you’ll never flush with the same equanimity again.” —Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-932360-80-6 | Trade Paper Original | $19.95

Legacy of Secrecy tells the full story of JFK’s murder and the tragic results of the cover-ups that followed, as revealed by two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, backed by thousands of files at the National Archives. The result of twenty years of research, it finally tells the full story long withheld from Congress and the American people.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-422-3 | Cloth | $33.00

In The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, Marion Winik presents snapshot portraits of roughly fifty-five people who touched her life, and relates the circumstances of their deaths. Tying the pieces together is Winik’s inimitable voice, at once poetic, poignant, and evocative of losses to which we can all relate. Tapping into the rich territory of her own life, Winik delivers a lyrical journey that ultimately raises the spirits.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-431-5 | Cloth | $20.00