ACADEMY CHICAGO
The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World (Mar., $16.95) by the Brennan Center Task Force on Voting Security suggests methods for preventing voting machine fraud. 15,000 first printing.
AK PRESS
A Bush and Botox World: Travels Through Bush's America (Apr., $15) by Saul Landau considers the country's decaying social and political landscape.
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS
Does How You Vote Matter? The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot (July, $24.95) by Paul S. Herrnson et al. appraises voting machine technology through five commercially available voting systems.
NATION BOOKS (dist. by PGW)
Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement (Apr., $13.95) by Scott Ritter argues that antiwar activists should seek inspiration from Sun Tzu.
OCEAN PRESS (dist. by Consortium)
Fidel Castro Reader (Apr., $19.95), edited by David Deutschmann, gathers a selection of the Cuban leader's speeches. 12,000 first printing.
LYNNE RIENNER
The End of Government... As We Know It: Making Public Policy Work (Mar.; $19.95, cloth $49.95) by Elaine C. Kamarck examines government in the new "postbureaucratic" state.
SKYHORSE (dist. by Sterling)
The Constitution in Crisis (Apr., $14.95) by John C. Conyers Jr. et al. tallies the deceptions, manipulations and retributions of the Bush administration.
SOFT SKULL PRESS
Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Global Economy (May, $15.95) by Edward Gresser argues that opponents of free trade have abandoned liberalism.
SOUTH END PRESS (dist. by Consortium)
How Nonviolence Protects the State (May, $10) by Peter Gelderloos indicts pacifism as racist, patriarchal and strategically bankrupt.
TEXAS AM UNIV. PRESS
Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement (May $18.95, cloth $30), edited by Peter Schweizer and Wynton C. Hall, collects conservative speeches dating from WWII.
