New Releases by John Nichols

Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone. Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown. In The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney, an academic, and John Nichols, a journalist, who together founded the nation''s leading media reform network, Free Press, investigate the crisis. They propose a bold strategy for saving journalism and saving democracy, one that looks back to how the Founding Fathers ensured free press protection with the First Amendment and provided subsidies to the burgeoning print press of the young nation.

Political reporter Nichols argues that socialism has a long, proud American history. This short, irreverent book gives Americans back a crucial part of their history and makes a forthright case for socialist ideas today.

The Oshkaabewis Native Journal is a interdisciplinary forum for significant contributions to knowledge about the Ojibwe language.

Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and Nichols begin by detailing how the media system has come to be dominated by a handful of transnational conglomerates that use their immense political and economic power to saturate the population with commercial messages. Further, the authors provide an analysis of the burgeoning media reform activities in the United States, and outline ways we can structurally change the media system through coalition work and movement-building: the tools we need in order to battle for a better media.

Presents the history, players, and accomplishments of the Boston Bruins.

A Wind Swept Over the Waters presents reflections on sixty well-known and beloved biblical passages. A work of meditation rather than scholarship, these passages speak to our daily lives, issues, and concerns. Ideal for anyone seeking a fresh approach to the Bible. This book includes passages from the Old and New Testaments: "A Wind from God Swept Over the Face of the Waters," Genesis 1:1-4 "O Sing to the Lord a New Song," Psalm 96:1-4 "The Assurance of Things Hoped For," Hebrews 10:32-36, 11:1-3 "I Do Not Do the Good I Want but the Evil I Do Not Want Is What I Do," Romans 7:15-19/ 20-24 "The Parable of the Good Samaritan," Luke 10:24-37 * A collection of verses from the Old and New Testaments that are familiar and inspiring. * Uses metaphorical understandings of scripture to connect these ancient words to our lives.

Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 2003.

A dazzling, darkly comic novel by the author of "The Sterile Cuckoo, The Voice of the Butterfly" looks at chaotic relationships fraught with conservation efforts. Funny and touching, Nichols''s novel is a wild ride through the lunacies of the postmodern age.

Minutes before midnight on the evening of March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed. The dam''s 200-foot concrete wall crumpled, sending billions of gallons of raging flood waters down San Francisquito Canyon, sweeping 54 miles down the Santa Clara River to the sea, and claiming over 450 lives in the disaster. Captured here in over 200 images is a photographic record of the devastation caused by the flood, and the heroic efforts of residents and rescue workers. Built by the City of Los Angeles'' Bureau of Water Works and Supply, the failure of the St. Francis Dam on its first filling was the greatest American civil engineering failure of the 20th century. Beginning at dawn on the morning after the disaster, stunned local residents picked up their cameras to record the path of destruction, and professional photographers moved in to take images of the washed-out bridges, destroyed homes and buildings, Red Cross workers giving aid, and the massive clean-up that followed. The event was one of the worst disasters in California''s history, second only to the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.

A color-illustrated overview of street luge that explains how the sport works and describes street luge safety, training, professionals, and competition. Also includes a "quick fact" section, a glossary, and lists of related resources.

Describes the history, equipment, competitions, and practice of climbing, both in climbing gyms and outdoors on rocks.

Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 1999.

Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 1999.

This new collection of essays gives you the opportunity to know him even more intimately.

Examines the history of the University of North Carolina basketball program.

Highlights the history of the Florida Marlins, the Major League Baseball expansion team that came to play in Miami in 1993.

At forty-eight, Bart Darling is about to perform a movie stunt that will in all likelihood kill him. Lorraine, his hillbilly girlfriend who is carrying his child, gives him an ultimatum: call it off or she''ll split. Bart summons his emotionally distant, twenty-nine-year-old son Marcel from New York to help him hold on to Lorraine. But Marcel finds himself falling for Lorraine, even as he sorts out his ambiguous feelings for Bart.

"John Nichols has remarkable insight into life''s crazy blend of comedy and tragedy. . . . Pure pleasure to read." —New York Times Book Review It''s World War II, and young Wendall Oler has been sent to stay will his father''s family in rural Stebbinsville, Vermont. Using this opportunity to act out his resentment for the death of his mother and his father''s leaving to fight in the war he does all he can to tyrannize his new family. Yet, thrown into the warmth of this country family, Wendall finds his resolve softening.