Thursday, December 16, 2010

This New Year - Gifts That Matter for the Future


WE ARE NOW OPEN!  
HOURS between now and our 
Grand Opening weekend Jan. 7th to 9th:
12 noon to 6 pm Wed-Sun 
(closed Mondays & Tuesdays)

A different future is possible:

 Origins of the New Communism
From Ike to Mao

How did a new synthesis of communism -- one that builds on but also transforms the theory and practice of previous revolutions -- come into being? Read the engaging memoir from Bob Avakian, the innovative and revolutionary  thinker who has taken Marxism to a whole new place.
Price: $18.95

The New Communist 
Manifesto
New Manifesto

This new communist manifesto draws out and sharply contrasts the contending roads before the revolutionary movement today, goes deeply into the direction and implications of each, and clearly puts forward a line that can lead to a revolutionary future.

Price: $5.00

A New Constitution for a New Future
draft constitution
Written with the new future in mind,
for a vastly different society and government than now exists.  It
 sets forth a basic model, and fundamental principles and
guidelines for such a new society
Price: $8.00



Important new arrivals: 


THE ATHEIST'S GUIDE TO CHRISTMAS: Richard Dawkins and 41 others contribute humor and insight to the holiday season. 
 $14.99 paperback.


THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS
Isabel Wilkerson's magnificent, extensively researched study of the "great migration," the exodus of six million black Southerners out of the terror of Jim Crow to an "uncertain existence" in the North and Midwest.  $30 hardcover.


LAS VENAS ABIERTAS DE AMERICA LATINA de Eduardo Galleano.  Enlightening account of 500 years of genocide and ransacking of a continent by Spanish, British and American colonialism.  Spanish.
$27.50 paperback.
AMEXICA - War Along 
the Borderline - Searing 
picture of the US-Mexican 
border today $27 hardbound
THE ECOLOGICAL RIFT - Capitalism's War on the Earth 
by John Bellamy Foster 
$17.95 paperback
DIARIO DE UN MOJADO
Ramón "Tianguis" Pérez's unflinching memoir of his odyssey. Spanish $12.95 paperback
JUST KIDS - Patti Smith's tender  memoir of her life with Robert Mapplethorpe, and the art and artists in New York - Allen Ginsberg, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and more. $16 paperback.
ZEITOUN - Dave Eggers biographical tale of a Syrian-born immigrant rescues people in New Orleans after Katrina, before he is arrested and accused of being Al Queda. $15.95 paperback
.THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS - Rebecca Skloot's poignant story of the death of a black woman and, without the knowledge of her or her family, the use of her cells in making medical breakthroughs. $26 hardcover.