Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed
Edited by Vandana Shiva

Publisher's Comments
We live in a world where of the 80,000 edible plants used for food only about 150 are being cultivated, and just 8 are traded globally. A world where we produce food for 12 billion people when there are only 6.3 billion people living, and, still, 800 million suffer from hunger and malnutrition and many more suffer diseases that could be eliminated easily with better food. A world where food is modified to travel long distances rather than to be nutritious and flavorful.

Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed lays out, with practical steps and far reaching concepts, a program to ensure food and agriculture become more socially and ecologically sustainable. It harvests the work and ideas produced by thousands of communities around the world. Emerging from the historic gatherings at Terra Madre, farmers, traders, and activists diagnose and offer prescriptions to reverse perhaps the worst food crisis faced in human history.

It’s So You! 35 Women Write about Personal Expression Through Fashion & Style
Edited by Michelle Tea

Publisher's Comments
It's So You explores the intersection between style and personal expression through lively essays by 35 top women writers and artists. Six Feet Under Producer Jill Soloway cuts off her hair and wrestles with the concept of "hotness"; transgender icon Kate Bornstein details her fashion evolution from flower child to SM leather dyke to couture girly-girl; and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon wonders if getting caught without underwear is the ultimate Hollywood celebutante fashion statement. It's So You celebrates not only the frivolity and playfulness of women's fashion, but also women's ability to find their own styles and delight in fashion--without feeling like they're selling out or buying into consumerism.

I Am America (and So Can You!)
Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm & Paul Dinell

Publisher's Comments
Congratulations - just by opening the cover of this book you became 25% more patriotic.

From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23½ hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast. Dictated directly into a microcassette recorder over a three-day weekend, this book contains Stephen's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. Always controversial and outspoken, Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches, why evolution is a fraud, and why the elderly should be harnessed to millstones. You may not agree with everything Stephen says, but at the very least, you'll understand that your differing opinion is wrong.

I Am America (And So Can You!) showcases Stephen Colbert at his most eloquent and impassioned. He is an unrelenting fighter for the soul of America, and in this book he fights the good fight for the traditional values that have served this country so well for so long. Please buy this book before you leave the store.

Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook
Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero

Publisher's Comments
Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook has over 250 of our favoritest vegan recipes with absolutely no "soy cheese" this or "store bought veggie burgers" that. Many of the recipes were written for every day meals, in hopes that you won't even need to look at the recipe after making it a few times. The kind of chow you can whip up any night of the week with your pantry staples and some seasonal produce. But you can also trust it when you're looking for an extravagant spread to impress, say, your in-laws, or the mayor of your town when she stops by.

During the course of developing recipes we kept coming back to this phrase: Recipes you wish you'd grown up with. These aren't necessarily restaurant masterpieces, although we bet many of the recipes will rival that of the $26 entree at many vegan eateries. It's real and honest home cooking, with a splash of panache that only two food obsessed chicks could arrive at. These recipes were not born from airy-fairy, spotless brushed stainless steel made for TV kitchens. The recipes that await you in the deepest, darkest inner sanctum of this book were created by two women who cook, live and eat in real, urban kitchens. This is food made while chatting with significant-others, gossiping with friends and shooing nosy pets off the counter-tops. In other words, this is kind of food you make and eat while life happens.