AGATE PUBLISHING
The Real Lives of Strong Black Men: Releasing Pain, Reclaiming Love (May, $13) by Toby Thompkins is a self-help guide for black men and the women who love them. 13-city author tour.
AMERICAN UNIV. INCAIRO PRESS (dist. by IPM)
Popular Culture in the Arab World (May, $24.95) by Andrew Hammond explains how popular culture works with the politics of the Middle East.
BASIC CIVITASBOOKS
Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip Hop (June, $15.95) by Michael Eric Dyson. America's "hip-hop intellectual" weighs in on the past, present and future of hip-hop music.
CARROLL GRAF
Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of the Criminalized Mentally Ill (May, $15.95) by Mary Beth Pfeiffer. An investigative reporter exposes the fate of the mentally ill in prison.
DOUGLAS MCINTYRE (dist. by PGW)
Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures (May, $14.95) by Wade Davis observes the diversity of the world's indigenous cultures and why they matter.
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIV. PRESS
Talk 2 u l8r: Mobile Culture in Everyday Life (June, $24.95) by André H. Caron and Letizia Caronia identifies the role of cell phones in identity, communities and social life.
RANDOM HOUSE
UnSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (Apr., $12.95) by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. The founders of FactCheck.org offer a guide to spotting bunk and knowing how and where to pick the facts from the piles of baloney.
STATE UNIV. OF NEW YORK PRESS
Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine: An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China (Mar., $24.95) by Yanhua Zhang describes how Chinese medicine deals with emotional disorders.
UNIV. OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Ethnicity and Equality: France in the Balance (Apr., $14.95) by Azouz Begag, trans. by Alec G. Hargreaves, analyzes the identity and culture of France's young ethnics.
UNIV. OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Phenomenon of Torture (June, $34.95), edited by William F. Schulz, supplies essays from both victims and perpetrators.
UNIV. PRESS OF COLORADO
Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia, Second Revised Edition (Apr., $19.95) by Brian Fagan follows the people who made archeological discoveries in this region.
