Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
C.J. Pascoe

Publisher's Comments
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. She demonstrates how the "specter of the fag" becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys and how the "fag discourse" is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.

The Cost of Privilege: Taking On the System of White Supremacy and Racism
Chip Smith

Publisher's Comments
The Cost of Privilege takes readers from the creation of the white race over three centuries ago to the present-day myth of a colorblind society; from the intersections of class, gender, and race to the concrete benefits - and harsh underside - of the privileges white people experience every day; from the victories when people allied across the color line to the failures of some of those alliances to hold; from personal transformations to international struggles.

Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP: Informed Revolt, 1996-2007
Edited by Brian Awehali

Publisher's Comments
For over a decade, in print and online, LiP: Informed Revolt concocted a deeply imaginative, iconoclastic mix of politics, culture, sex, and humor that took clear, sometimes uproarious aim at mass mediocracy and capitalist miserablism. All volunteer, never for profit, and always criminally under-distributed, LiP's diverse crew of co-conspirators devoted themselves to imagining and articulating a vernacular radicalism unencumbered by the political deadwood of the day.

Collected herein are the finest fruits of those award-winning efforts: the very sharpest salvos from the oddly dangersome, overwhelmingly larcenous, vaguely apocalyptic, constructively negative, relentlessly persuasive, curiously unflinching, and often grossly unexpected pages of the best magazine you probably never heard of.

She's Not the Man I Married: My Life With a Transgender Husband
Helen Boyd

Publisher's Comments
She’s Not the Man I Married was inspired by the crisis in one couple’s marriage: Helen Boyd’s husband, who had long been open about being transgender, was considering living as a woman fulltime. Boyd was confronted with what it would mean if her husband actually were to become a woman socially, legally, and medically, and whether or not her love and desire for her partner would remain the same if he became ‘she’.

Boyd’s first book, My Husband Betty, explored the relationships of crossdressing men and their partners. She’s Not the Man I Married is in some ways both a sequel and a more serious and expansive examination of gender roles in relationships, for couples who are homosexual or heterosexual, and who fall anywhere along the gender continuum.

Boyd’s marriage serves as a platform for exploring the problems with gender in relationships. She struggles to understand the nature of commitment, love, and desire. Boyd’s strength is in her ability to share her doubts, confusion, and anger, offering anyone who’s in a relationship a lens through which to make sense of their own loves and losses, desires and disappointments. She’s Not the Man I Married is a fascinating consideration of the ways in which relationships are gendered, how gender limits us in the ways we love, and how we cope – or don’t – with the emotional and sexual pressures that gender roles can bring to our marriages and relationships.

Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning
George Monbiot

Publisher's Comments
We all know that climate change is the greatest problem facing our world - it's being rammed home by new evidence every day. But does that mean the problem is now too big to deal with? Or can we solve it? In Heat, George Monbiot, one of the world's leading environmental activists proves, with passion and rigorous analysis, that there is a way. It now seems certain that we need a 90% cut in our emissions within 25 years if we are to stop ourselves reaching the point where the "climate feedback" becomes unstoppable, and our world becomes largely uninhabitable.

For the first time, this book explains how this cut could be achieved. Combining his unique knowledge of political campaigning and environmental science, Monbiot analyses the possibilities and pitfalls of energy efficiency, nuclear power, renewable resources and new technologies, and applies them to our everyday lives, measuring the cuts that can be made. Is individual abstinence and care futile when others are lighting their houses with a million bulbs every Christmas? And internationally, how much can ever be done when there is still a powerful lobby of climate change deniers influencing governments and businesses around the world? Heat shows us that real change can be effected now by putting pressure on those in a position to really make a difference. Radical, pragmatic and totally surprising, this book reveals how we can reconcile our demands for comfort, prosperity and peace with the increasingly pressing need to prevent us destroying our future.