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Carroll & Graf Publishers (Avalon Publishing Group)

  • Travels with a Whip, G. C. Scott (2002)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra, Alan Vanneman (2002)
  • Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels' Flight to Freedom, Peter F. Stevens (2002)
  • The Truth about Fire, Elizabeth Hartmann (2002)
  • To Catch a Spy: A Toby Peters Mystery, Stuart M. Kaminsky (2002)
  • Disturbance of the Inner Ear, Joyce Hackett (2002)
  • Hell Wouldn't Stop, Chet Cunningham (2002)
  • Lucky Lady, Steve Jackson (2002)
  • Manslaughter, Parnell Hall (2002)
  • Inside of Time: My Journey from Alaska to Israel, Ruth Gruber (2003)
  • The Republic of Night, Dominic Martell (2003)
  • Everybody's Somebody's Fool, Ed Gorman (2003)
  • Dog Tags of Courage, John C. Burnam (2003)
  • The Long Fall, Lynn Kostoff (2003)
  • Bipolar Disorder Demystified, Lana R. Castle (2003)
  • Unreliable Truth: Turning Memory into Memoir, Maureen Murdock (2003)
  • Dictionary of the Middle East, Dilip Hiro (2003)
  • Separate and Unequal: Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court Decision That Legalized Racism, Harvey Fireside (2004)
  • Electric Dreams, Caroline Kettlewell (2004)
  • In Search of the Greatest Golf Swing, Philip Reed (2004)
  • The Politics of Truth; Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity, Joseph Wilson (2004)
  • Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt through Depression and War, Cathy D. Knepper, editor (2004)
  • The Last Flight of Bomber 31, Ralph Wetterhahn (2004)
  • To the Edge and Back: The Story of Olympic Snowboarder and Organ Transplant Survivor Chris Klug, Chris Klug with Steve Jackson (2004)
  • Freedom in This Village: Black Gay Men's Writing, 1969 to the Present, E. Lynn Harris (2004)
  • Cheapskates, Charlie Stella (2005)

Marlowe & Company (Avalon Publishing Group)

  • The Low GI Smart Carb Diet: The Definitive Science-Based Weight-Loss Plan, Jennie Brand-Miller & Kaye Foster-Powell with Joanna McMillan-Price (2005)
  • Wicca Demystified, Bryan Lankford (2005)
  • Don't Worry, You'll Get In, Mimi Doe and Michele A. Hernandez (2005)
  • Bike for Life, Roy M. Wallack and Bill Katovsky (2005)
  • Yoga Nap: Restorative Poses for Deep Relaxation, Kristen Rentz (2005)

Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books (Avalon Publishing Group)

  • The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, Alan Kaufmann, Barney Rosset, and Neil Ortenberg, editors (2004)
  • Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to September 11, Melissa Boyle Mahle (2004)
  • Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin's Visionary Friends, Jack Fruchtman (2005)
  • Confessions: Admissions of Sexual Guilt, Sage Vivant and M. Christian (2005)
  • The Day without Yesterday: Lemaître, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology, John Farrell (2005)
  • Steal This Vote! A History of Vote Fraud in America, Andrew Gumbel (2005)
  • Chronos: How Time Shapes Our Universe, Etienne Klein (2005)

The University of Virginia Press

  • Exhibiting Religion: Colonialism and Spectacle at International Expositions, 1851-1893, John Burris (2001)
  • The Flirt's Tragedy: Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction, Richard A. Kaye (2002)
  • Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction, Laurie Vickroy (2002)
  • The Modernist Response to Chinese Art: Pound, Moore, Stevens, Zhaoming Qian (2003)
  • Between Faith and Thought: An Essay on the Ontotheological Condition, Jeffrey W. Robbins (2003)
  • Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men, Marilyn C. Wesley (2003)
  • Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America, Patricia Okker (2003)
  • A Passionate Usefulness: The Life and Literary Labors of Hannah Adams, Gary D. Schmidt (2004)
  • The Wild Coast: Exploring the Natural Attractions of the Mid-Atlantic, Curtis J. Badger (2004)

The University Press of Kentucky

  • The Kentucky River, William E. Ellis (2000)
  • The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen, Peter J. Bailey (2001)
  • Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media, Bill Ellis (2000)
  • Behavioral Therapy for Rural Substance Abusers: A Treatment Intervention for Substance Abusers, Carl Leukefeld, Theodore Godlaski, James Clark, Cynthia Brown, Lon Hays (2000)
  • Rare Birds: An American Family, Dan Bessie (2001)
  • The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann, Philip Walker Jacobs (2001)
  • American Audiences on Movies and Moviegoing, Tom Stempel (2001)
  • A History of Appalachia, Richard B. Drake (2001)
  • Silent Heroes: Downed Airmen and the French Underground, Sherri Greene Ottis (2001)
  • Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age, Gary R. Edgerton and Peter C. Rollins, editors (2001)
  • Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration, Jonathan J. Bean (2001)
  • The Humor of the Old South: Critical Perspectives, M. Thomas Inge and Edward J. Piacentino, editors (2001)
  • Expanding the Envelope: Flight Research at the NACA and NASA, Michael H. Gorn (2001)
  • Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban, James W. Coleman (2001)
  • The Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal, Joe Nickell (2001)
  • Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales, Keith Cartwright (2002)
  • The Chronicle of Alfonso X, Shelby Thacker and José Escobar (2002)
  • Multicolor Memories of a Black Southern Girl, Kitty Oliver (2001)
  • The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family, Carol Stein Hoffman (2001)
  • Dickens's Great Expectations: Misnar's Pavilion versus Cinderella, Jerome Meckier (2002)
  • Challenge and Change in Appalachia: The Story of Hindman Settlement School, Jess Stoddart (2002)
  • Hold the Roses: An Autobiography, Rose Marie (2003)
  • Life and Grace: Songs of an Appalachian Family, Linda Scott DeRosier (2003)
  • Culinary Tourism: Food, Eating, and Otherness, Lucy M. Long, editor (2003)
  • General R. S. Ewell: Robert E. Lee's Hesitant Commander, Paul D. Casdorph (2004)

Indiana University Press

  • Existential Semiotics, Eero Tarasti (2000)
  • Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century, Emma Lou Thornbrough (2000)

The University of Alabama Press

  • Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Recent American Poetry, Jed Rasula (2003)
  • The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century, Eric Carl Link (2004)
  • Differentials: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy, Marjorie Perloff (2004)
  • Game Work: Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture, Ken S. McAllister (2004)
  • Transmitting the Past: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting, J. Emmett Winn and Susan L. Brinson, editors (2004)
  • America's Battalion: Marines in the First Gulf War, Otto J. Lehrack (2004)
  • Rhetorical Women: Fragmented Traces, Roles, and Representations, Hildy Miller and Lillian Bridwell-Bowles (2004)
  • Dissonance (if you are interested), Rosmarie Waldrop (2005)
  • Transatlantic Scots, editor Celeste Ray (2004)
  • Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne: A Life in Letters, Ceceile Anne de Rocher, editor (2005)
  • Summer in Oconomowoc: The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping, Michael M. Lorge and Gary P. Zola, editors (2005)

Wayne State University Press

  • Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches, Donald P. Haase (2004)
  • History, Fiction, and Germany: Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation, Brent O. Peterson (2004)
  • His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Philip Pullman's Trilogy, Millicent Lenz, editors (2004)
  • Israeli Folklore: Settlement, Immigration, and Ethnicity, Haya Bar-Itzhak (2005)
  • From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill's Jewish Plays, Edna Nahshon, editor (2005)
  • Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 46.3 (Summer 2004), editor Cannon Schmitt (2004)
  • Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 46.4 (Fall 2004), Cannon Schmitt, editor (2005)

Ohio State University Press

  • Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Jacqueline H. Wolf (2001)
  • Warring Factions: Interest Groups, Money, and the New Politics of Senate Confirmation, Lauren Cohen Bell (2001)
  • The White Tattoo, William J. Cobb (2001)
  • D. H. Lawrence: Self and Sexuality, James Cowan (2002)
  • Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassinations; Recent Poetry and Fiction, Sharon Rose Wilson (2002)
  • Merchant of Illusion: James Rouse, American Salesman of the Businessman's Utopia, Nicholas Dagen Bloom (2004)
  • Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity, John Timberman Newcomb (2004)

Potomac Books (formerly Brassey's)

  • Misguided Weapons: Technological Failure and Surprise on the Battlefield, Azriel Lorber (2002)
  • All the Factors of Victory: Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves and the Origins of Carrier Airpower, Thomas Wildenberg (2002)
  • Their War for Korea: American, Asian, and European Combatants and Civilians, 1945-1953, Allan R. Millett (2002)
  • There's a Porcupine in My Outhouse: Misadventures of a Mountain-Man Wannabe, Michael Tougias (2002)
  • Flying through Time: A Journey into History in a World War II Biplane, James M. Doyle (2003)
  • TV's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Crazy Casting, Off-Camera Clashes, and Other Oddities, Douglas Tonks (2003)
  • UPI Stylebook: The Authoritative Handbook for Writers, Editors & News Directors, 4th ed. (2004)
  • Business's Most Wanted, The Top 10 Book of Corporate Greed, Eccentric Entrepreneurs, and Management Oddities, James Romeo (2005)

Matthew Bender/A Member of the LexisNexis Group

  • Biosocial Criminology: Introduction and Integration, Anthony Walsh (2002)
  • Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control, 4th Edition, Michael D. Lyman and Gary W. Potter (2002)
  • Community Policing in a Rural Setting, 2nd Edition, Quint C. Thurman and Edmund F. McGarrell (2002)
  • Civil Liability in Criminal Justice, 3rd Edition, Darrell L. Ross (2003)
  • Ethics in Criminal Justice, 3rd Edition, Sam S. Souryal (2003)
  • Effective Police Supervision, Harry W. More and Larry S. Miller (2003)
  • Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practice, and Evaluations, 4th Edition, Steven P. Lab (2004)
  • Police Problem Solving, Quint C. Thurman and J. D. Jamieson (2004)

Naval Institute Press

  • The North Korean People's Army: Origins and Current Tactics, James M. Minnich (2005)
  • Baghdad, Basrah, and Beyond, Nicholas Reynolds (2005)
  • Operational Intelligence in the Age of Global Conflict, Christopher Ford & David Rosenberg (2004)

Stanford University Press

  • Persons, Roles, and Minds: Identity in Peony Pavilion and Peach Blossom Fan, Tina Lu (2001)

University of Hawaii Press

  • Buddhist Christian Studies, Volume 21 (2001)
  • Buddhist Christian Studies, Volume 22 (2002)
  • Buddhist-Christian Studies, Volume 23 (2003)

Henry Holt Books for Young Readers

  • Racing the Past, Sis Deans (2001)
  • Ghost Soldier, Elaine Marie Alphin (2001)
  • Ananse and the Lizard: A West African Tale, Pat Cummings (2002)

Antioch Publishing

  • Memories of My Father, Jill R. Hughes (2001)
  • Memories of My Mother, Jill R. Hughes (2001)
  • Memories of School, Jill R. Hughes (2001)

Antenesca Publishing

  • The Choice for Love, Maggie Victor (2002)
  • Heartwork, Maggie Victor (2002)

tompeters! company

  • The Leader's Voice: How Your Communication Can Inspire Action and Get Results, Boyd Clarke and Ron Crossland (2002)

Owen-Hill Publishing

  • LoveStyles: Being Who You Are, Getting the Love You Want, Dr. Meredith Ellen Reid (2003)
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