This is the story of the Bush administration's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001--and of how we have been led down a path of executive abuses, human tragedies, abandonment of the Constitution, and the erosion of due process and liberty. In this vitally important book, Peter Jan Honigsberg chronicles the black hole of the American judicial system from 2001 to the present, providing an incisive analysis of exactly what we have lost over the past seven years and where we are now headed.

"In weaving compelling human stories and a meticulously researched chronology of violations of the rule of law and human rights since 9/11, Honigsberg has written a moving and powerful narrative of how we lost our constitutional and moral compass."--Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking

Peter Jan Honigsberg is Professor of Law at USF School of Law. Since 2002, he has been teaching a class on the War on Terror. He visited Guantanamo in May 2007. He is also the author of Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir among other books.

With disarming candor and the audacity to admit that practicing medicine can be a crazy thing, Watts fills each page with riveting details, moving accounts, or belly-laughs. As the stories in this work unfold, we are witness to the moral dilemmas and personal rewards of ministering to the sick. Whether the subject is the potential benefits of therapeutic deception or telling a child about death, Watts’s ear for the right word, the right tone, and the right detail never fails him.

David Watts practices medicine in San Francisco. A poet, musician, television host, and teacher, he is the author of Bedside Manners: One Doctor’s Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters between Patient and Healer, Blessing, Making, Taking the History, and Slow Walking at Jenner-by-the-Sea. He produced "Healing Words: Poetry and the Art of Medicine," which was broadcast nationally on PBS in the summer of 2008.

In opposition to contemporary poems of studied meaninglessness, Scott increasingly recognizes a compulsion in himself to radically reaffirm traditional rejections of the external world and turn to the refuges of poets before him, the enduring commonplaces that are more than clichés.

"Another book of revelations . . .On every page there's something to make the reader gasp, pause, and wonder."--Askold Melnyczuk, author of The House of Widows

Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat, is professor of English at UC Berkeley. He is also the author of several other volumes of poetry and The Road to 9/11

It is 1972, and Veronica Chater's parents believe that Vatican II's liberalization has corrupted the Catholic Church, inviting the Holy Chastisement—an apocalypse prophesied by three shepherds in Fatima, Portugal. To spare his family this horror, Veronica's father quits the highway patrol, sells everything, and moves the family of eight from California to an isolated village near Fatima.

But Portugal is no Catholic utopia, and the family schleps home penniless to join the nascent Catholic counterrevolution: attending the Latin Mass in truck garages and abandoned buildings, serving meals to religious soldiers, breeding a new member of the faithful every year. As Veronica comes of age on the fringes of the American Dream, she rebels against a fanaticism that forbids anything modern—clothes, movies, or music. This is the story, both sad and funny, of a family torn apart by religion and brought back together in spite of the injuries it inflicted on itself.

Veronica Chater has written for national women's magazines and This American Life. Her stories have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times magazine, the London Guardian, and various anthologies. She currently lives in Berkeley.

Dr. Kessler met with top scientists, physicians, and food industry insiders. The End of Overeating uncovers the shocking facts about how we lost control over our eating habits—and how we can get it back. Dr. Kessler presents groundbreaking research, along with what is sure to be a controversial view inside the industry that continues to feed a nation of overeaters—from popular brand manufacturers to advertisers, chain restaurants, and fast food franchises.

For the millions of people struggling with weight as well as for those of us who simply don't understand why we can't seem to stop eating our favorite foods, Dr. Kessler’s cutting-edge investigation offers new insights and helpful tools to help us find a solution.

David Kessler served as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration under presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. He is a pediatrician and has been the dean of the medical schools at Yale and UCSF. A graduate of Amherst College, the University of Chicago Law School, and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Kessler is the father of two and lives with his wife in San Francisco.

No one needs an advanced degree in creative writing to reap the rewards of poetry. This invitation to creatives from all backgrounds puts poetry back into the hands of the people--not because they are aspiring to become the poet laureate of the United States--but because poetry is one of the great pleasures in life.

Sage Cohen is an award-winning poet with a BA from Brown University and an MA in creative writing from New York University. The author of the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World, Sage has published widely including three monthly columns about the craft and business of writing. She has taught poetry at universities, hospitals and writing conferences as well as online. Sage's blog, www.writingthelifepoetic.typepad.com , continues the conversation started in Writing the Life Poetic.

We’ve heard so many alarming rumors about a crisis in the book business, but what’s really going on? Is reading and getting publishing as we’ve known it going to survive? How has the march from print to digital impacted writers, agents, and editors. Veteran insider Alan Rinzler gives an up-to-date report and prognosis from the front lines about the changing role of the writer and how to navigate new challenges, obstacles, and opportunities.

Authors are invited to submit 15 page abbreviated fiction or nonfiction proposals that include an overview, chapter outline, and sample pages. Send to alan@alanrinzler.com and several will be submitted for anonymous class discussion.

Rinzler has worked at Simon & Schuster, Bantam, Rolling Stone, and for the past 17 years as Executive Editor at Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons in San Francisco, editing and publishing such authors as Toni Morrison, Tom Robbins, Hunter Thompson, Clive Cussler, Jerzy Kosinski, Shirley MacLaine, and others.