Ultimately, Gillman concludes, organic methods are preferable in most situations that gardeners are likely to encounter. After reading this eye-opening book, you will understand why, and why knowledge is the gardener's most important tool.

"A bulletin from the front lines: timely, true, and at its heart surprisingly tender." — Ann Packer

Sylvia Brownrigg is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction: a collection of stories, Ten Women Who Shook the World, and three novels, The Metaphysical Touch, Pages for You, and The Delivery Room, a novel the London Times called "intensely intelligent and highly readable" and the Observer "outstanding. . . a marvelous novel." Sylvia’s works and have been translated into several languages, and she has won a Lambda award for fiction. In addition to writing fiction, Sylvia Brownrigg has also taught at the American University in Paris and been widely published as a reviewer and critic.

"An unsparing portrait of a glamorous but elusive father and his daughter's search for the truth about his secret life."—Sylvia Nasar

Honor Moore is the author of three poetry collections and of The White Blackbird, a life of her grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent. She lives in New York City and teaches at the New School and Columbia University.

Kunin’s core message is that America needs an infusion of new leadership to better address the major problems of our time. To see how women can achieve that goal, she combines her personal experience in politics; the lessons of past women’s movements; the stories of young women today who have new ideas about their role in society; and interviews with a wide range of women in positions of power, looking for clues to their leadership, as well as the effects of gender stereotyping. She interviews Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, analyzes her campaign, and addresses the question: “Is the country ready?” Other interviewees include U.S. Representatives Loretta Sanchez, Linda Sanchez, Deborah Pryce, and Tammy Baldwin, and U.S. Senators Susan Collins, Amy Klobuchar, and Carol Moseley Braun, and Governors Kathleen Sibelius and Janet Napolitano.

Authors Larissa Brown and Martin John Brown present an inspiring look at centuries of people knitting together, and why knitters find the interaction so meaningful and worthwhile. Along the way, they offer 20 projects especially suited for different types of knitalongs. The Barn Raising Quilt and the Traveling Scarf, for instance, call on individual knitters to collaborate on a single project; while the Pinwheel Blanket and the Meathead Hat encourage a community of knitters to improvise on the same pattern to come up with a variety of results. Also included is essential information about finding, joining, and starting knitalongs. Hundreds of knitters participated in the knitalongs hosted by the authors as part of their research, and this book will inspire thousands more to get involved in the knitalong movement. The only book that celebrates this tradition of community and purpose, Knitalong is sure to have a powerful impact.

Larissa Brown is a writer and fiber artist whose artwork has been featured in Fiberarts and Knit.1 magazines and exhibited in New York, Seattle, Boston, and her hometown of Portland, Oregon. See her art at larissabrown.net and read her blog at larissmix.typepad.

"An ideal match between biographer and subject . . . You get the whole man . . . A true original as a person, as a writer and as a critic." --Martin Rubin, San Francisco Chronicle

Philip L. Fradkin shared the Pulitzer Prize as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and was western editor of Audubon magazine. He is the author of ten previous books, including A River No More: The Colorado River and the West. He lives in Marin County.

The stories of these social entrepreneurs are rich with insight. The book weaves together a mosaic of world-changing individuals who present concrete solutions for action, often utilizing business practices for a social benefit. They all are contributing to a shared vision of progress. For more information, www.TacticsofHope.org

Wilford Welch earned a BA from Yale, a PMD from the Harvard Business School and a law degree from the UC Berkeley. His professional career has been devoted to understanding and taking actions to address global challenges—as a U.S. diplomat in Asia, as a professor of international business and as the publisher of The World Paper, a world affairs publication that was carried in twenty-seven countries in six language editions. He lives in Sausalito.

David Hopkins is the former director, at Middlebury College, of the International Affairs Center of the Roosevelt Institution, the nation's first intercollegiate think tank devoted to progressive policy reform.

Within the American psyche, Griffin explains, there is an enduring battle between the "psychology of empire," characterized by a desire for safety, order, and control, and the "psychology of democracy," characterized by equality, empathy, and truth-telling. "As a social body," she writes, " we are caught between conflicting desires, between the wish for freedom and the desire for order and safety, between the psychology of subjects and the psychology of citizens." Griffin's probing exploration of the history of American democracy is interwoven with sections of memoir exploring her own upbringing and political awakenings as the daughter of working-class parents in 1950s California.

Throughout this unique work—which gives special emphasis to the inner lives of pivotal historical figures—Griffin demonstrates that ultimately democracy is not only a system of governance, but, in its fullest form, represents a revolution in consciousness, one that is still unfolding today. We are still wrestling with the promise of democracy and, as American citizens, are deeply affected by the ongoing struggle between tyranny and freedom.

“Susan Griffin's superb prose reveals democracy not as a distant abstraction but as a live, inspiring, and difficult presence shaping us every day, an angel all Americans wrestle with.”—George Lakoff

Susan Griffin has won dozens of awards for her work as a feminist writer, poet, essayist, playwright, and filmmaker. She is the author of more than twenty books, including A Chorus of Stones. She is the recipient of an Emmy, a MacArthur grant, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Berkeley.

This semester’s class is full of the usual suspects: the doctor who wants to be the next Robin Cook, the overly enthusiastic repeat student, the slacker, the unassuming student with the hidden talent, the prankster, the know-it-all…. Amy’s seen them all before. But something is very different about this class---and the clues begin with a scary phone call in the middle of the night and obscene threats instead of peer evaluations on student writing assignments. Amy soon realizes that one of her students is a very sick puppy, and when a member of the class is murdered, everyone becomes a suspect.

Suspenseful, extremely witty, unexpectedly hilarious, The Writing Class is a one-of-a-kind novel that rivals Jincy Willett’s previous masterpieces.

Jincy Willett is also the author of Winner of the National Book Award and Jenny and the Jaws of Life. She lives in San Diego.

An expert geneaologist whose investigations into his own family history led him to write this book, Ron Arons is a Princeton graduate who lives in Oakland.