EqualShot played a major role in releasing the following books, working closely with the authors and publishers. In one instance, we teamed up with corporate giant Starbucks after the book was selected as their pick of the year for stores nationwide.
Add these titles to your reading list, and you won’t be disappointed!
"LISTENING IS AN ACT OF LOVE: A CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN LIFE FROM THE STORYCORPS PROJECT"
New York Times bestseller, hardcover and paperback with companion CD. Penguin Press, edited by Dave Isay. Starbucks pick of the year. To learn more: www.listeningisanactoflove.org
Reviews
"These stories come from the souls of individual Americans. Collectively, they are who we are as a people. You cannot read this book without feeling proud of your country." - Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley
"I loved this book. I savored these stories. So candid. So open-hearted. So full of life. The StoryCorps project may well be the most important cultural event in America today. It's about us. About who we are. About where we've come from, and where we want to go. Listening Is an Act of Love is the equivalent of eavesdropping on America." - Alex Kotlowitz
"This book is absolutely remarkable. Listening is an Act of Love is history in the richest sense of the word, the kind that makes people feel like they count. It's a celebration of the lives of the uncelebrated. In our world today people feel helpless, but once they speak of their lives they become alive! This is what our country is all about. Never has a book been more timely or necessary." - Studs Terkel
"A PIVOTAL MOMENT: POPULATION, JUSTICE & THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGE"
Released in 2009, "A Pivotal Moment" includes chapters by the country’s leading experts on a range of critical issues such as climate change, migration, food and water supply, consumption, and sexual and reproductive health. Edited by Laurie Mazur, authors include Robert Engelman of the Worldwatch Institute and author of More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, well-known feminist scholar and author Ellen Chesler, and Gus Speth, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and one of the nation’s most original environmental thinkers.
To learn more: http://popjustice.org/
"FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: A GUIDE TO LAWS & POLICIES WORLDWIDE"
St. Martin's Press and Zed Books, London, authors Anika Rahman and Nahid Toubia
Reviews
"An indispensable resource for activists, scholars and advocates interested in women's bodily integrity and human rights." - Rosalind Petchesky, Hunter College
"For all those working on the elimination of FGM, this book provides a framework and recommendations for practical legal policy and action." - Nafis Sadik, UN Population Fund
"UNICEF welcomes this valuable exposition [which] contributes to a better understanding of the need to protect the rights of girls and women and end FGM." - Carol Bellamy, UNICEF