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TWB Staff Picks. The following five books are 25% off during the month of January.

What We All Long For, by Dionne Brand. Knopf. $29.95
Brand's newest novel is a must-read. Book launch Jan 26/05 at the Gladstone Hotel.

Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place by Nirmal Puwar. Berg Publications. $36.95
Drawing on case studies from within the nation state, including, the art world, academia and everyday life, this book asks the questions: how are positions of authority racialized and gendered? How do people manage their femininity and/or blackness while in a predominately white male context? How do spaces become naturalized or normalized and what does it mean when they are disrupted. Space Invaders is an important contribution to spatial theory and critical race theory.

Postcolonial Melancholia by Paul Gilroy. Columbia University Press. $33.25
In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That’s the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Continuing the conversation he began in ‘There Ain’t no Black in the Union Jack’ Gilroy examines multiculturalism within the context of the post-9/11 “politics of security”.

Mamaphonic edited by Bee Lavender and Maia Rossini. Soft Skull Press. $20.95
Mamaphonic collects confessions and conversations about the exhilarating, entertain, and difficult aspects of remaining creative while raising children. In the forms of essays, photographs, and illustrations, this eclectic mix of musing proves that becoming a mother is an expression of creativity, not silencing.

Love by Toni Morrison. Random House. $21.00
Toni Morrison’s new novel is Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color, and class that spans three generations of black women in a fading beach town.

January 2005 new music and dvds

Worry the Jury by Mad Violet. $14.99
The debut album from Canadian duo Mad Violet. A blend of pop, bluegrass and folk music, Mad Violet have been nominated for East-Coast Music Awards. Multi-instrumentalists and rocking women who also opened for Indigo Girls (Massey Hall).

Rezos by Bobi Cespedes $19.95
Bobi Céspedes is a singer, composer and percussionist as well as a priestess in the Yoruba-Lucumi spiritual tradition. Her solo debut couples deep Afro-Cuban and Yoruban grooves with one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in world music.

Exitos Externos: Best of Celia Cruz by Celia Cruz. $21.95
This is a unique compilation that contains the most important songs of the last chapter of Celia Cruz’s career. Featuring collaboration with India and a moving duet with Vincente Fernandez.

The Fourth World War $32.95
The Fourth World War weaves together the images and voice of the war on the ground - from the front lines of struggles n Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, ‘the North’ from Seattle to Geneva, and the ‘War on Terror’ in New York and Iraq.

January 2005 new arrivals

The Rights of Other: Aliens, Residents and Citizens by Seyla Benhabib. Cambridge University Press $31.95
The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership. In this compilation of her Seeley Lectures, Seyla Benhabib makes a powerful plea for moral universalism and cosmopolitan federalism. She advocates porous boundaries, recognizing both the admittance rights of refugees and asylum seekers, and the regulatory rights of democracies.

Made in India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects by Suparna Bhaskaran. Palgrave MacMillan. $33.95
Made in India explores the making of “queer” and heterosexual” consciousness and identifies in light of economic privatization, trans/national activism, sexuality-focused NGOs, and the Bollywoodization of beauty contests. In examining high profile event in post/neocolonial India since the 1990s, Made in India demonstrates the material, political, and cultural contexts within which post/neocolonial subjects negotiate their lived experiences within moments of decolonization and recolonization.

Exchange Is Not Robbery: More Stories of an African Bar Girl by John M. Chernoff. Chicago University Press. $30.50.
In Exchange Is Not Robbery we follow the further adventures of Hawa, the West African bar girl, who audiences were first introduced to in Hustling Is Not Stealing. In this new book, Hawa returns to her native Burkina Faso, where she achieves greater control over her life but faces new difficulties. Combining elements of folklore and memoir, Hawa's funny, shocking, and poignant stories portray the diverse social landscape of West Africa.

‘Mixed Race’ Studies: A Reader edited by Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe. Routeledge. $49.95
Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological scenes, as well as the humanities, this Reader charts the evolution of debates on race and mixed race. This reader also adds a dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of mixed race research as an intellectual movement.

Every Grain of Sand: Canadian Perspectives on Ecology and Environment edited by J.A. Wainwright. Wilfred Laurier University Press. $24.95
Universal in scope, yet focusing on recognizable Canadian places, this collection of essays connects individuals’ love of nature to larger social issues, to cultural activities, and to sustainable technology. These essays encourage the reader to break down the power-based divisions of centre versus marginal politics, and to consider activism as a personal commitment, and to resist the construction of a “post-natural” world.

Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism: A Critical Pedagogy by Peter McLaren and Ramin Farahmandpur. Rowman & Littlefield. $33.95
This book addresses a number of urgent themes in education today that include multiculturalism, the politics of whiteness, the globalization of capital, neoliberalism, postmodernism, imperialism, and current debates in Marxist social theory. The above themes are linked to critical educational praxis, particularly to teaching activities within urban schools.

Violence in the Name Of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges edited by Sharhzad Mojab and Nahla Abdo. Istanbul Bilgi University Press. $15.00
This book is the outcome of the International Seminar on Violence in the Name of Honour, a gathering of activists, policy makers, and academics in Istanbul in 2003. This book examines the theoretical approaches, community and state responses as well as providing a list of resources for the study of honour violence.

Mothering for Schooling, by Dorothy Smith and Allison Griffith. Routledge, $35.95
Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving on the PTA can all have profound effects on what occurs within school. Based on longitudinal interviews with mothers of school-age children, this book exposes the effects mothers' work has on educational systems as a whole and the ways in which inequalities of educational opportunities are reproduced.

Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America edited by Pooja Makhijani. Seal Press. $22.50.
This collection explores racial awakening with a delicate clarity. Including the first person perspectives of women of color, white women, and those caught between two worlds, Under Her Skin traces themes related to double lives, fear, envy, lineage, and family, expanding the often painful exploration of difference.

Welfare Warrior: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States by Premilla Nadasen. $34.95
Welfare Warriors chronicles the emergence, growth and eventual decline of the welfare rights movement. It also details the story of these women and their visionary ideas on the nature of feminism and social reform.

Incorrigible by Velma Demerson. Wilfred Laurier University Press. $19.95.
Incorrigible is the story of how Velma Demerson - who in 1939 was taken away to Toronto’s Mercer Reformatory for Females - and many other women, were classified and condemned as criminals or as mentally “defective,” when their choice of lover may have been their worst crime. Incorrigible also addresses the rise of psychiatry, legislation against interracial marriage, and a populist eugenics movement through the first-person voice a woman who fought to confront these powerful social forces.

Rosa’s District Six by Rozena Maart. TSAR Books. $18.95
In Cape Town’s District 6, despite the brutality of apartheid laws, the lives of people go on. In these five connected stories, the central character is precocious little girl called Rosa. Through her adventures in the neighbourhood we come to meet and know the District and its many colourful inhabitants and their confusing, enigmatic lives, and all too human quirks.

Roofwalker by Susan Power. Milkweed. $24.95.
Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, Roofwalker, a book of fiction and non-fiction stories and essays where spirits and the living commingle, and Native American culture and modern life collide with disarming power, humor, and joy.

Matadora by Sarah Gambito. Alice James Books. $18.95
This vivid, incisive, feminist debut skewers Filipina American gender roles with its delightful sense of humor. The elliptical lyrics reveal illusions and exclusions at the heart of America’s global narrative of economic “progress,” and the attendant loss of cultural identity and memory. At the same time, Matadora challenges traditional Filipina gender norms, beginning with the title, which feminizes a word and profession traditionally masculine.

Daughter by Asha Bandele. Scribner. $19.00
At nineteen, Aya is a promising Black College student from Brooklyn who is struggling through a difficult relationship with her emotionally distant mother, Miriam. One winter night, Aya is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity. Keeping vigil by her daughter’s hospital bed, Miriam remembers her own youth. But as Miriam confronts her past she begins to heal and discovers a tentative hopefulness.

The Women’s Book of Resilience: 12 Qualities to Cultivate by Beth Miller. Conari Press. $22.95
The Woman’s Book of Resilience is a smart, often funny, book that can help any woman thrive amid life’s ups and downs. When we cultivate resilience, we mine the awful, or merely annoying, experiences in life to find meaning and purpose. An accessible, practical guide for women who want to bounce back.

Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing up Groovy and Clueless by Susan Jane Gilman. Warner Books. $18.95
Based on the belief that there’s more to women’s lives than just getting a date, Susan Gilman’s stories tell of struggling to get a life and a clue: whether she’s a teenager chasing rock stars, an ambitious cub reporter, or a feminist bride-to-be unexpectedly finding nirvana in a Bridal salon. Heart-breaking, insightful and screamingly funny, Gilman’s memoir is so engaging it reads like the very best fiction.

Dreams Have No Expiry Date: A Practical and Inspirational Way for Women to Take Charge of Their Futures by Laurie Gottlieb and Deanna Rosenswig. Random House. $27.00.
Dreams Have No Expiry Date explains how, by helping you to discover and articulate long-held dreams, identify where you are in the process of transition, mobilize your inner strengths and resources, estimate your readiness for change and then create a personalized road map to turn your dreams into reality.

Scheherazade: Comics about Love, Treachery, Mothers, and Monsters. Edited by Megan Kelso. Soft Skull Press. $27.95
Energy, ferocity, and a dazzling variety of drawing styles unite and light up the pages of this new anthology, which use the yarn-spinning skill of Queen Scheherazade as inspiration for its own stories. Showcasing the work of 23 female cartoonists, this collection will appeal to devotees of both comics and graphic novels.

Cecilia’s Year by Susan & Denise Gonzales Abraham. Cinco Puntos Press. $22.95
Fourteen-year old Maria Celia Gonzales dreams about moving beyond the purple and blue mountains of the farm community she lives in to high school and then on to a job in the big city. But something stands in the way of her dreams. Susan and Denise Gonzales Abraham have woven that is a tribute to the deep roots of their family in rural New Mexico.