Home » New Title   Chesapeake Watershed, The. Details  Extensive and fragile, the Chesapeake Bay watershed is one of the fastest growing and most endangered regions in the country. Here accomplished environmental scientist and lifelong ourdoorsman Ned Tillman issues his own call for a general public awakening. Combining literary skills with informed science and a love for the environment, he explains how the Chesapeake watershed formed, what it has given us, and what it can continue to provide if we will only take action. He also provides an extensive list of practical things each of us can do which, taken in serious numbers, can preserve and restore this national treasure. Price: $16.00 Country Plumbing, Revised Edition. Details  You can keep your septic system running day-after-day, year after-year. First published in 1984, Country Plumbing, in its initial edition, went through eight printings and has educated and entertained thousands of country dwellers who live beyond the reach of public sewer systems. Now, with the contribution of Mike Haupt, this revised edition contains information about some of the more recent developments in the world of private sewage treatment facilities. Even in restricted areas such as lakeside properties or small lots, you can live without a public sewer hook-up and still be a good steward of the environment. Price: $12.50 Old Man Rasin - Coming in October. Details  Boss Politics in Gilded Age Baltimore, 1867-1907 By Tracy Matthew Melton From his humble office at the Baltimore Court of Common Pleas, Isaac Freeman Rasin ran the city and built an envialbe fortune. This is narrative history at its best, packed with action, colorful detail and ruthless men. Melton traces how a political boss and his associates gained power-and held it-in a city noted for political violence. Rasin now takes his place beside New York's Boss Tweed and George Washington Plunkett as one of the truly memorable big-city bosses. Melton is the author of Hanging Henry Gambrill: The Violent Career of Baltimore's Plug Uglies, 1854-1860. He lives in Oakton, VA. 2008; Chesapeake Book Company; 6"x 9"; 494 pages Paperback; ISBN: 0-963515-99-3 Price: $25.00 Sotterley: Her People and Their Worlds. Details  Three Hundred Years of a Maryland Plantation By David G. Brown The story of Sotterley plantation in St. Mary's County began shortly after the founding of Maryland and continued over three centuries that saw it rise from humble beginnings, prosper in the age of tobacco and slavery, endure depression, and survive three wars, only to stumble toward ruin until a generous fate brought restoration and renewed relevance for our time. Some who resided there were socially prominent, though most were not. Some were free, others enslaved. Some were white, more were black. Yet they were men and women whose stories have much to tell us about the history of southern Maryland and a maturing Chesapeake society. 2010; Chesapeake Book Company; 6"x 9"; 116 pages Paperback; ISBN: 9-780982-30-4914 Price: $17.00 Walk in My Shoes, A. Details  Our Lives of Hope By Diane Karper Here are the life stories of eighteen people who, but for this book, would live out their lives in obscurity. From Ale to Ubaldo, these men and women of rural Honduras give us their stories, their struggles, and their triumphs in their own voices. Diane Karper has interviewed the subjects over the period of two years. Through many tears and smiles she has recorded their stories and then endeavored to render them into English while retaining the individual character of each. The result takes the North American reader into a world scarcely imaginable. 2010; Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc.; 6"x 9"; 96 pages Paperback; ISBN: 0911469354 Price: $15.00

Confronting The Myths and Fixing Our Failing System

Health Care Meltdown, by Robert H. LeBow, MD and C. Rocky White, MD