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River North Editions 2011 Q1 Catalog
River North Editions 2011 Q1 Catalog
River North Editions 2011 Q1 Catalog
River
North
Editions
Provocative Titles for Intellectual Pursuits
Spring 2011
IPG’s professional and academic distribution program has been recast to
reflect the diversity and appeal of the titles it represents as well as to
better present this distinguished list of publishers to a wider audience.
Some of the world’s most prestigious publishers appear in the River North
Editions catalog. The strength of these publishers has always been the
original thinking, informed opinions, and expert analysis found within the
content of these titles. While these books will appeal to an intellectual
reader, they are not always published for a strictly academic audience.
The River North Editions list consists of books that would find consumers
in quality trade and university bookstores.
Paul Murphy
Vice President
Professional and Academic Markets
Mahabharata in Polyester
The Making of the World’s Richest Brothers
and Their Feud
Hamish McDonald
Dhirubhai Ambani was a rags-to-riches Indian tycoon whose com-
pany Reliance is now one of India’s major corporations. Ambani’s
sons Anil and Mukesh, who took over after their father’s death in
2002, are worth $43 billion and $42 billion respectively, but their
relationship is far from amiable. Demonstrating the complicated
links between government and big business, this account is not only
the riveting story of one of the wealthiest families in the world—in-
cluding their infamous feud—but also an illustration of India’s
transformation into a global economic powerhouse.
Hamish McDonald is the Asia-Pacific editor of the Sydney Morning
Herald and a former editor of the Far East Asian Economic Review.
He is the two-time recipient of the Walkley Award and an inaugural
fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
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Casino Jack
A Screenplay by Norman Snider
Norman Snider
Introduction by George Hickenlooper
Afterword by F. X. Feeney
From movie buffs and film students to anyone who enjoys true-crime
stories or is interested in U.S. politics, this companion to a critically
acclaimed biopic offers a rare glimpse into the creative process of cin-
ema. A mix of Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas, and Oliver Stone’s W,
George Hickenlooper’s Casino Jack explores the complex figure at the
center of the biggest scandal to hit Washington after Watergate—Jack
Abramoff, a political operative who worked the back alleys of Repub-
lican administrations around the globe from Nicaragua to Angola. The
screenplay begins with Abramoff’s arrest by the FBI in Los Angeles in
2005 and the Mafia-style murder of the Florida casino owner Gus
Boulis, then goes back in time to George W. Bush’s inauguration in
2000, which Abramoff celebrates with the powerful House Leader,
Tom DeLay. From there Abramoff proceeds to gain a multimillion-dol-
lar fortune lobbying on behalf of dodgy Asian sweatshop owners and
gullible Indian casino proprietors—all the while wining and dining the
big players in Washington. This illustrated companion to the film fea-
tures the complete screenplay in script form, a foreword by the film’s
writer Norman Snider, an introduction and photo diary by the film’s
director George Hickenlooper, 10 storyboards, an afterword by film
critic F. X. Feeney, and more than 50 film stills interspersed through-
out the text.
Norman Snider is a screenwriter with six movies to his credit, including
“With Casino Jack, George Hickenlooper culls the wit
Body Parts, Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fliess, and Dead
of Primary Colors, the dark layers of Advise and Con-
Ringers. He is also the author of Changing of the Guard: How the Lib-
sent, the tension of All the President’s Men, and the
erals Fell from Grace and the Tories and The Roaring Eighties and
insider awareness of The Candidate to create his own
Other Good Times. He lives in Toronto. George Hickenlooper was a
unique work—a cinematic treasure, and a book that
filmmaker and screenwriter whose credits included Dogtown, Low
captures in print format what is so wonderful on
Life, and an early version of Sling Blade. F. X. Feeney is a film critic, an
screen.” —Rod Lurie, director, The Contender
author, a screenwriter, and was a creative consultant to Z Channel and
ClickStar. He lives in Los Angeles.
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China Under
the Empress Dowager
The History of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi
J. O. P. Bland and Edmund Backhouse
One of the most popular and controversial Chinese history books
ever written, this account explores the Forbidden City during the
reign of Empress Dowager Cixi (1861–1908). Entertaining and en-
lightening, this record examines a world of power-thirsty eunuchs,
concubines, and Mandarins. Filled with intrigue, bitter antago-
nism, and ruthless reprisals and predicting the fall of the Qing dy-
nasty, this history is heavily based on Chinese source materials,
some of which may have been fabricated.
J. O. P. Bland served as China correspondent for the London
Times from 1897 until he left China in 1910. Edmund Back-
house was a linguist, a scholar, and a translator, who worked for
the British Foreign Service and the London Times.
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“The themes of exile and dislocation are cleverly drawn and “An evocative story layered with mystery, longing, and re-
Maya’s imagined wanderings into wartime Shanghai give her gret. . . . The rural landscape is a background for a narra-
refuge in someone’s else’s past. The language displays great tive that succinctly shows what the human heart can
restraint as well as a real lyrical beauty.” endure.” —Nicole Alexander, author, The Bark Cutters
—Sydney Morning Herald
“The novel is a heritage rose . . . the dark and the domestic
“For those who enjoy beautiful writing and an assured tone mix to powerful effect.” —Sunday Age
and mood, The Last Sky has much to offer.”
—Bookseller+Publisher “This debut work is simple but impressive. Refreshingly clear
of ambiguity and postmodernism, the narrative draws you
“It’s well written in a lyrical, impressionistic, meditative style into the lives of the characters and the beauty of the land-
. . . Nelson is a sensitive and imaginative observer of people scape.” —Courier Mail
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No More Parades
A Novel
Ford Madox Ford
Edited by Joseph Wiesenfarth
The second volume of Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End series, this
fully annotated edition follows Christopher Tietjens, an officer and
gentlemen, from the secure, orderly world of Edwardian England
into the chaotic madness of World War I. Recounting a complex sex-
ual intrigue involving Tietjens and his faithless wife Sylvia, this ac-
count is not only a panorama of WWI, but an exploration of time,
history, and sexuality. The text also provides key contexts—such as
Ford’s biography, the historical moment, the novel’s reception at the
time of its original publication, and its relation to the author’s other
novels—giving readers a close-up view of this major literary techni-
cian at work. Transcripts of significant deletions and revisions to the
work as well as a glossary of pertinent terms are also included.
Ford Madox Ford was an editor, an essayist, a critic, a poet, and a
novelist. He is the author of It Was the Nightingale and Provence.
Joseph Wiesenfarth is professor emeritus of English at the University
of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford and the
Regiment of Women and Gothic Manners and the Classic English
Novel and the editor of History and Representation in Ford Madox
Ford’s Writings. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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“Contagious—if this appealing book doesn’t turn you on to “Koval is a thoughtful interviewer, considering the interview
great writing, nothing will.” —Steve Braunias, columnist, an art form, and she approaches each writer individually
Sunday Star-Times and with great regard for what she finds in their books. She
can equally discuss the value of rationality with Ian McEwan
“An ambitious yet intimate celebration of the power of
or the propensity of murderers to be dog owners with
literature.” —Finlay Macdonald, former editor,
P. D. James.” —Age
New Zealand Listener
“Flynn is one of the most interesting and independent
thinkers of his generation.” —Thomas W. Pogge, professor,
Columbia University, on Where Have All the Liberals Gone?
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The Exile Book of Priests, Pastors, The Exile Book of Native Canadian
Nuns and Pentecostals Fiction and Drama
Stories of Preachers and Preaching Edited by Daniel David Moses
Edited by Joe Fiorito • Author’s previous books sold more than 18,000 copies
A literary approach to the Word of the Lord, this collection of
The work of men and women of many tribal affiliations, this
short fiction deals with—in one way or another—the overarch-
collection is a wide-ranging anthology of contemporary Native
ing concept of redemption. This anthology demonstrates how
Canadian literature. Deep emotions and life-shaking crises con-
God appears again and again in the lives of priest, pastors,
verge and display the Aboriginal concerns regarding various
nuns, and Pentecostals in these great stories of a kind never col-
topics, including identity, family, community, caste, gender, na-
lected before—those by Jacques Ferron, Morley Callaghan,
ture, betrayal, and war. A fascinating compilation of stories and
Hugh Hood, Gloria Sawai, Mavis Gallant, Leon Rooke, Barry
plays, this account fosters cross-cultural understanding and
Callaghan, Séan Virgo, Kenneth J. Harvey, Claire Dé, Marie-
presents the Native Canadian writers’ reinvention of traditional
Claire Blais, Hugh Garner, and more. Not only is the religious
material and their invention of a modern life that is authentic.
material presented in an approachable manner, but it also fos-
ters reflection and discussion. Daniel David Moses is a drama teacher at Queen’s University in
Kingston, Ontario, and the author of Almighty Voice and His
Joe Fiorito is a city columnist for the Toronto Star. He is the au-
Wife, Big Buck City, Coyote City, Delicate Bodies, The Indian
thor of five books, including the bestselling memoir The Closer
Medicine Shows, Sixteen Jesuses, and The White Line. He is the
We Are to Dying. He is the recipient of the City of Toronto
coeditor of An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in Eng-
Book Award for The Song Beneath The Ice. He lives
lish and was appointed a Queen’s National Scholar in the de-
in Toronto.
partment of drama at Queen’s University in 2003. He lives
288 PAGES in Toronto.
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“Arguably belongs to the canon of He was later released without charge and LITERARY COLLECTIONS/ESSAYS
memorable South African literature, went on to earn a fine arts degree at Co- 220 PAGES, 5.25 X 8.25
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I’m the One That Know Regional Disparities, Smaller Smoking in Antarctica
This Country! States and Statehood Selected Writing
Second edition for Telangana Steve Braunias
Jessie Lennon C. H. Hanumantha Rao HUMOR/ESSAYS, 304 PAGES, 5 X 7
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Australia’s Remarkable Trees The Party Thieves
To Live In or Leave South Africa Richard Allen The Real Story of the 2010 Election
Edited by Tim Richman Photographs by Kimbal Baker Barrie Cassidy
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What Doesn’t Kill You Watch Your Fingers! Best Australian Political
Makes You Stronger Alfred Gardner Cartoons 2010
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Publisher Index
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RIVER NORTH EDITIONS Title Index
C G M
Casino Jack, 2 Garden of Ideas, The, 46 Magnesium Civilization, The, 34
China Under the Empress Dowager, 4 Gender, Modernity & Indian Delights, 26 Mahabharata in Polyester, 1
Class and Gender in British Labour Geographer by Declaration, A, 40 Malcolm Fraser, 25
History, 24 Get That Freak, 12 Man Bites Murdoch, 25
Collected Contraptions, 39 Global Care Work, 26 Men of the North, The, 15
Collected Poems: Ivor Gurney, 37 Global Fight for Climate Justice, The, 11 Methanol Fuel Cell Systems, 34
Confessions of a Faceless Man, 42 Great Multicultural North, 41 Mining the Future, 22
Constructing a Democratic Group Architects, 32 Missing Women, Missing News, 41
Developmental State in South
Africa, 23 Modern Canadian Poets, 37
H Moonmen, The, 39
Hadley, 28 Mr. Big, 41
D
Hawke, 25 My Sister Chaos, 12
Darker Music, A, 5
Health Financing for the Developing
Dearest Brother, 15
World, 21
Decentralised Reinforcement Learning N
Honouring the Contract, 45 Nanotechnology in Australia, 35
in Markov Games, 34
How India’s Small Towns Live (or Nazarene Gospel Restored, The, 18
Deciphering Advertising, Art and
Die) Making Sense of Municipal
Architecture, 32 New Australian Stories 2, 31
Finances, 24
Disconnected, 26 New Model of the Economy, A, 20
Huts, 41
Down to Earth, 21 No More Parades, 6
Dub Wise, 38 Not for Every Eye, 29
IJK
Dust and Dreams, 45
I’m the One That Know This
Country!, 40 O
E Imputed Rights, 20 On Passion, 33
Economic Reforms and Development Intimate War, An, 29 One Law for All?, 22
in China Volume 1, 21
Islam Dreaming, 19 Out of the Hay and into the Hops, 44
Electoral Justice, 23
Oxford Poets Anthology 2010, 37
Electrochemical Nanofabrication, 35
JK
Everything We Hoped For, 31
Journey into the Unknown, 28 P
Exile Book of . . . series, The, 9
Kite’s Flight, A, 45 Party Thieves, The, 42
Exile Book of Native Canadian Fiction
and Drama, The, 9 Perspectives for a European Security
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R UV
Racist’s Guide to the People of South Understudies, 38
Africa, The, 46 Unlikely Secret Agent, The, 13
Raptors, 38 Viking DNA, 36
Regional Disparities, Smaller States Village and the World, The, 27
and Statehood for Telangana, 40
Reproduction in Domestic W
Ruminants VII, 36 Waiting and Being, 33
Revelations, 30 Watch Your Fingers!, 43
Revenge of Kali, 30 Weary, 43
Rudd’s Way, 44 What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You
Rumours of a Moral Economy, 20 Stronger, 43
William Armstrong, 16
S Willow Pattern Walkabout, 14
Savage or Civilised?, 45
Scotland’s Methodists, 18 YZ
Seasons in My House and Garden, 43 Yiwarra Kuju, 14
Seven Days of the Heart, The, 10 Zuma’s Bastard, 11
Shah Wali Allah’s Treatises on
Islamic Law, 19
Should I Stay or Should I Go?, 42
Slip Stream, 39
Smoking in Antarctica, 40
So Greek, 44
Song of Our Swampland, The, 29
Speaking Volumes, 8
Sufi Master’s Message, A, 19
T
Thorps in a Changing Landscape, 17
Time to Tell, 44
Torchlight List, The, 8
Treaty of Waitangi Companion, The, 40
Twilight of the Vuvuzelas, 42
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