For Beginners, LLC
Predecessor |
Writers and Readers Cooperative, Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc. |
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Founded | 1974 |
Founder | Glenn Thompson, Sian Williams, John Berger, Lisa Appignanesi, Richard Appignanesi, Arnold Wesker, Chris Searle |
Country of origin | U.S., previously United Kingdom |
Headquarters location | London (1974–1987), then New York City (1987–2001), now Danbury, Connecticut |
Key people |
Glenn Thompson Dawn Reshen-Doty Merrillee Warholak |
Publication types | Books |
Nonfiction topics | history, philosophy, politics |
Imprints |
Harlem River Press Black Butterfly Children's Books |
Official website | forbeginnersbooks.com |
Country |
England United States |
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Language | English |
Publisher |
Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc. For Beginners, LLC |
Published | 1975–present |
Media type | Paperback |
For Beginners LLC is a publishing company based out of Danbury, Connecticut, that publishes the For Beginners graphic nonfiction series of documentary comic books on complex topics, covering an array of subjects on the college level. Meant to appeal to students and “non-readers,” as well as people who wish to broaden their knowledge without attending a university, the series has sold more than a million copies.
The For Beginners series was launched in the mid-1970s, but became out of print and often unavailable after the 2001 death of co-founder and publisher Glenn Thompson.[1] In 2007, a consortium of investors revived the series, reprinted back issues, and promised to publish between six and nine new issues each year. The current publisher is Dawn Reshen-Doty.
History
Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative
The company began as Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, a London, England-based publisher founded in 1974[1] by Thompson, his then-wife Sian Williams, Richard Appignanesi, Lisa Appignanesi, John Berger, Arnold Wesker, and Chris Searle, A publishing cooperative, the founders of Writers and Readers shared the work and the profits. (The Cooperative also operated a London bookshop at 144 Camden High Street until the mid-1980s.)
The For Beginners series has its origins in two Spanish-language books, Cuba para principiantes (1960) and Marx para principiantes (1972) by the Mexican political cartoonist and writer Rius, pocket books which put their content over in a humorous comic book way but with a serious underlying purpose. An English-language version of the first book was published in 1970 by Leviathan Press of San Francisco and Pathfinder Press of New York, to no particularly great impact. However, when Richard Appignanesi edited the first English edition of Marx for Beginners (1976), it was soon clear that the collective had a hit on their hands.[2][3] With a successful format identified, further For Beginners titles soon began to appear. The line's most enduring titles, all published during this period, were Marx for Beginners (1976), Freud for Beginners (1979), Einstein for Beginners (1979), and Darwin for Beginners (1982).[4]
In the early 1980s questions of control arose after some members of the cooperative sold U.S. rights to part of the For Beginners series to Pantheon Books. The Cooperative officially disbanded in 1984.
Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc.
Following this rift, in 1987 Thompson took over as sole publisher and moved back to his hometown of New York City to establish a legal foothold and prevent any further unauthorized distributing of titles. Based in Harlem, the company was known as Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc. (In moving the company to Harlem, Thompson’s goal was to stimulate a new Harlem Renaissance by creating an international publishing house there. He started two new publishing companies: The Harlem River Press, publishing children’s poetry, and Black Butterfly Children's Books, books for the inner-city child). The London-based company, formally established in 1992, was known as Writers and Readers Limited.[5] For years, Thompson spent his time traveling between England and New York to manage the two companies.
In 1992, Richard Appignanesi, who had been the first editor in London for the series and had also written several of the titles, co-created the new publisher Icon Books, under whose imprint he republished several of the For Beginner titles and continued to publish and expand a British version of the series called Introducing.Meanwhile, the New York-based Writers and Readers continued the For Beginners series, in several cases commissioning new authors to create replacement books for those being published in Britain. This led to a number of examples where the two ranges were publishing two different books on the same subject.
Thompson died of cancer in London on September 7, 2001; by the time of his death, the company had published over forty For Beginners titles.
For Beginners, LLC
Several years after the passing of Glenn Thompson, investors decided to buy the rights to the titles, creating For Beginners, LLC.
In the summer of 2007 For Beginners LLC re-released twenty of the prior For Beginners titles and authorized the first new title, Dada and Surrealism For Beginners.[6]
List of titles
The "For Beginners" series
The following for Beginners titles have been published or republished by For Beginners LLC since 2007.
Title | ISBN | Writer(s) | Illustrator | Pages | Publication Date | Notes |
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African History | 9780863161445 | Herb Boyd | Shey Wolvek-Pfister | 128 | 2007 | Originally published 1991 |
Anarchism | 9781934389324 | Marcos Mayer | Hector A. Sanguillano | 176 | 2008 | |
Arabs and Israel | 9780863161612 | Ron David | Susan David | 224 | 2007 | Originally published 1993 |
Art Theory[7] | 978-1934389478 | Richard Osborne | Dan Sturgis | 192 | 2009 | |
Astronomy | 9780863169991 | Jeff Becan | Sarah Becan | 152 | 2007 | |
Ayn Rand[8] | 9781934389379 | Andrew Bernstein | Owen Brozman | 112 | Aug 2009 | |
Barack Obama[9][10][11][12] | 9781934389447 | Bob Neer | Joe Lee | 128 | 2009 | |
Ben Franklin | 9781934389485 | Tim E. Ogline | Tim E. Ogline | 160 | 2013 | |
Black History | 9781934389195 | Denise Dennis | Susan Willmarth | 192 | 2007 | Originally published 1984 |
Black Holocaust | 9781934389034 | S.E. Anderson | Vanessa Holley | 192 | 1995 | |
Black Women | 9780863161476 | S. Pearl Sharp | Beverly Hall | 192 | 1993 | |
Chomsky | 9780863162336 | David Cogswell | Paul Gordon | 160 | 1996 | |
Climate Change | 978-1-939994-43-1 | Dean Goodwin | Joe Lee | 144 | 2016 | |
Dada and Surrealism | 9781934389003 | Elsa Bethanis, Peter Bethanis | Joe Lee | 128 | 2006 | |
Dante | 9780863162800 | Joe Lee | Joe Lee | 180 | 1999 | |
Deconstruction[13] | 9780863169984 | Jim Powell | Joe Lee | 168 | 2007 | |
Democracy[14] | 9781934389362 | Robert Cavalier | Reuben Negrón | 128 | 2009 | |
Derrida | 9780863161391 | Jim Powell | Van Howell | 192 | 1996 | Different from Derrida for Beginners (Icon, 1996) by Jeff Collins, Bill Mayblin, and Richard Appignanesi |
Eastern Philosophy | 9780863162824 | Jim Powell | Joe Lee | 192 | 2000 | |
Existentialism[15][16] | 978-1-934389-21-8 | David Cogswell | Joe Lee | 192 | Oct 2008 | |
FDR and the New Deal | 978-1-934389-50-8 | Paul Buhle | Sabrina Jones | 176 | 2010 | |
Foucault[17] | 9781934389126 | Lydia Alix Fillingham | Moshe Susser | 160 | 1993 | Different from Introducing Foucault (1997) by Chris Horrocks, Zoran Jevtic, and Richard Appignanesi |
Gender & Sexuality | 9781934389690 | Jaimee Garbacik | Jeffrey Lewis | 216 | 2013 | |
Global Warming[18] | 978-1-934389-27-0 | Dean Goodwin | Joe Lee | 144 | Dec 2008 | No longer listed in catalogue |
Greek Mythology | 9781934389836 | Joe Lee | Joe Lee | 196 | 2013 | |
Heidegger | 9780863161728 | Eric Charles Lemay | Jennifer A. Pitts | 128 | 1994 | |
History of Opera | 9781934389805 | Ron David | Sara Woolley | 168 | 2013 | |
Islam | 978-1-934389-01-0 | Nabil Ibrahim Matar | H.N. Haddad | 216 | 1992 | Different from Introducing Muhammed (Icon, 1994), republished as Introducing Islam (Icon, 2001), by Ziauddin Sardar & Zafar Abbas Malik |
Jane Austen | 9781934389614 | Robert Dryden | Joe Lee | 170 | 2011 | |
Kierkegaard | 9780863161926 | Donald D. Palmer | Donald D. Palmer | 160 | 1996 | |
Lacan | 9780863162275 | Phillip Hill | David Leach | 176 | 1997 | Different from Introducing Lacan (Icon, 2000) by Darian Leader and Judy Groves |
Linguistics | 978-1-934389-28-7 | W. Terrence Gordon | Susan Willmarth | 128 | 2008 | |
Malcolm X | 9780863161469 | Bernard Aquina Doctor | Bernard Aquina Doctor | 192 | 1992 | |
Marx's Das Kapital | 978-1-934389-59-1 | Michael Wayne | Sungyon Choi | 176 | 2012 | Different from "Marx's Kapital for Beginners" (Writers & Readers, 1982) by David N. Smith & Phil Evans |
McLuhan | 9780863162312 | W. Terrence Gordon | Susan Willmarth | 176 | 1997 | |
Nietzsche | 9780863161186 | Marc Sautet | Patrick Boussignac | 192 | 1990 | Translated from the French Nietzsche pour débutants (1986) |
The Olympics | 978-1-934389-33-1 | Brandon Toropov | Joe Lee | 176 | Jun 2008 | No longer listed in catalogue |
Paul Robeson | 978-1934389812 | Paul Von Blum, Elizabeth Von Notias | Ramsess | 144 | 2013 | |
Philosophy | 9780863161575 | Richard Osborne | Ralph Edney | 192 | 1992 | Different from Introducing Philosophy (Icon, Sept. 2007) by Dave Robinson and Judy Groves |
Plato | 9780863160394 | Robert Cavalier | Eric Lurio | 160 | 1990 | |
Poetry | 978-1-934389-46-1 | Margaret Chapman, Kathleen Welton | Reuben Negrón | 160 | 2010 | |
Postmodernism | 9780863161889 | Jim Powell | Joe Lee | 163 | 1998 | Different from Introducing Postmodernism (Icon, Sept. 2007) by Richard Appignanesi, Chris Garratt, Ziauddin Sardar, and Patrick Curry |
Relativity and Quantum Physics | 978-1-934389-42-3 | Steven L. Manly | Steven Fournier | 144 | Nov 2009 | Different from Quantum Theory for Beginners (Icon, 1996) by J. P. McEvoy & Oscar Zárate |
Sartre | 978-0863161773 | Donald D. Palmer | Donald D. Palmer | 160 | 1995 | |
Shakespeare[19] | 9780863162282 | Brandon Toropov | Joe Lee | 224 | 1997 | |
Structuralism and Poststructuralism | 9780863161933 | Donald D. Palmer | Donald D. Palmer | 160 | 1995 | |
Unions | 9781934389775 | David Cogswell | C.M. Butzer | 168 | 2012 | |
U.S. Constitution | 9780863161261 | Steven Bachman | Joel Pett | 172 | 1984 | Re-issued in 2012 with art by Jorge Díaz |
Women's History | 9781934389607 | Bonnie J. Morris | Phil Evans | 200 | 2012 | |
Zen | 9780863161179 | Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic | Naomi Rosenblatt | 176 | 1985 | |
Zinn | 978-1-934389-40-9 | David Cogswell | Joe Lee | 176 | Aug 2009 |
The "Writers & Readers Documentary Comic Book" series
The following for Beginners titles were published by Writers & Readers between 1975 and 2001.
Title | ISBN | Writer(s) | Illustrator | Pages | Publication Date | Notes |
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Addiction & Recovery | 978-0-863161-98-8 | David Brizer | Ricardo Castañeda | 152 | 1996 | |
Adler | 978-0863162701 | Anne Hooper & Jeremy Holford | Kathryn Hyatt | 154 | 1998 | |
African History | 978-0-86316-144-5 | Herb Boyd | Shey Wolvek-Pfister | 128 | 1991 | |
Arabs and Israel | 978-0-86316-161-2 | Ron David | Susan David | 224 | 1993 | |
Architecture | 978-0-86316-161-2 | Louis Hellman | 210 | 1988 | ||
Art | 978-0863162657 | Dani Cavallaro | Carline Vago-Hughes | 185 | 2000 | |
Artaud | 978-0863162916 | Gabriela Stoppelman | Jorge Hardmeier | 192 | 1999 | |
Babies | 978-0-863161-69-8 | David Brizer | Ricardo Castañeda | 186 | 1994 | |
Biology | 978-0863161940 | Wilson McCord | Wilson McCord | 192 | 1996 | |
Black History | 978-1-934389-19-5 | Denise Dennis | Susan Willmarth | 192 | 1984 | |
Black Holocaust | 978-1-934389-03-4 | S.E. Anderson | Vanessa Holley | 192 | 1995 | |
Black Panthers | 9781939994394 | Herb Boyd | Lance Tooks | 160 | 1995 | |
Black Women | 978-0-86316-147-6 | S. Pearl Sharp | Beverly Hall | 192 | 1993 | |
Body | 978-0863162664 | Dani Cavallaro | Carline Vago-Hughes | 176 | 1999 | |
Brecht | 978-0863161001 | Michael Thoss | Patrick Boussignac | 180 | 1984 | |
Buddha | 978-0863161865 | Stephen T. Asma | Stephen T. Asma | 160 | 1996 | |
Bukowski | 978-0863162855 | Carlos Polimeni | Miguel Rep | 160 | 2000 | |
Capitalism | 0-906495-50-4 | Robert Lekachman | Borin Van Loon | 176 | 1981 | |
Castaneda | 978-0863162817 | Martin Broussalis | Martin Arvallo | 175 | 1999 | |
Che | 978-0-863162-56-5 | Sergio Sinay | Miguel Ángel Scenna | 184 | 1997 | Translated from Che Guevara para principiantes (1997) |
Chomsky | 978-0-86316-233-6 | David Cogswell | Paul Gordon | 160 | 1996 | Different from Chomsky for Beginners (Icon, 1996), republished as Introducing Chomsky (Icon, 2004), by John Maher & Judy Groves |
Classical Music | 978-0-863161-62-9 | Stacy Combs Lynch | Michael D. Lynch | 124 | 1994 | |
Computers | 978-0-863161-91-9 | Errol Selkirk | Benny Kandler | 192 | 1995 | |
Cuba | 978-0-904613-41-4 | Rius | Rius | 160 | 1975 | Translated from Cuba para principiantes (1960) |
Dante | 978-0-86316-280-0 | Joe Lee | Joe Lee | 180 | 1999 | |
Darwin | 978-1-84831-117-6 | Jonathan Miller | Borin Van Loon | 176 | 1982 | Republished by Icon in 1992 |
Derrida | 978-0-86316-139-1 | Jim Powell | Van Howell | 192 | 1996 | Different from Derrida for Beginners (Icon, 1996) by Jeff Collins, Bill Mayblin, and Richard Appignanesi |
DNA | 9780863160233 | Israel Rosenfield, Edward Ziff | Borin Van Loon | 258 | 1983 | Also published as DNA: a graphic guide to the molecule that shook the world, Columbia University Press (258 pp.) Spring 2011 (ISBN 9780231142717) |
Domestic Violence | 978-0-863161-73-5 | Alisa Deltufo | Barbara Henry | 159 | 1995 | |
Ecology | 978-0-906495-79-7 | Stephen Croall | William Rankin | 174 | 1981 | Republished by Icon in 1992 |
Eastern Philosophy | 978-0-86316-282-4 | Jim Powell | Joe Lee | 192 | 2000 | |
Economists | 978-0-906495-52-0 | Bernard Canavan | Bernard Canavan | 176 | 1983 | |
Einstein | 978-0-906386-05-7 | Joseph Schwartz | Michael McGuinness | 174 | 1979 | Republished by Icon in 1992 |
Elvis | 978-0-04-927011-4 | Jill Pearlman | Wayne White | 160 | 1986 | |
English Language | 978-0-86316263-3 | Michelle Lowe | Ben Graham | 204 | 1998 | |
Erotica | 978-0-863161-41-4 | Errol Selkirk | 96 | 1992 | ||
Fanon | 978-1934389874 | Deborah Baker Wyrick | Deborah Baker Wyrick | 192 | 1998 | |
Food | 978-0906495858 | Susan George | Nigel Paiege | 176 | 1982 | |
Foucault[20] | 978-1-934389-12-6 | Lydia Alix Fillingham | Moshe Susser | 160 | 1993 | Different from Introducing Foucault (1997) by Chris Horrocks, Zoran Jevtic, and Richard Appignanesi |
Freud | 978-1-84046-851-9 | Richard Appignanesi | Oscar Zarate | 176 | 1979 | Republished as Introducing Freud (Icon, Sept. 2007) |
French Revolution | 978-0863160158 | Martin McCrory | Robert Moulder | 176 | 1983 | |
Garcia Lorca | 978-0863162893 | Luis Martinez Cuitino | Delia Cancela | 192 | 1999 | |
García Márquez | 978-0863162893 | Mariana Solanet | Hector L. Bergandi | 192 | 1999 | |
Gestalt | 978-0-863162-58-9 | Sergio Sinay | Pablo Blasberg | 176 | 1998 | |
Health Care | 978-0-863161-70-4 | David Brizer | Ricardo Castañeda | 192 | 1995 | |
Heidegger | 978-0-86316-172-8 | Eric Charles Lemay | Jennifer A. Pitts | 128 | 1994 | |
Hemingway | 978-0-863161-28-5 | Errol Selkirk | Anne Finkelstein & James Acevedo | 160 | 1995 | |
History of Cinema | 978-0-863162-75-6 | Jarek Kupść | Jarek Kupść | 382 | 1998 | |
History of Clowns | 978-0863161995 | Joe Lee | Joe Lee | 180 | 1995 | |
History of Eastern Europe | 978-0863162374 | Paul Beck | Ed Mast & Perry Tapper | 186 | 1997 | |
I Ching | 978-0-863162-30-5 | Yusuf Toropov | John Kane | 160 | 1996 | |
Ireland | 978-0-863160-16-5 | Phil Evans | Eileen Pollock | 176 | 1983 | |
Iris Murdoch | 978-0863164019 | Bran Nicol | Piero | 132 | 2001 | |
Islam | 978-1-934389-01-0 | Nabil Ibrahim Matar | H.N. Haddad | 216 | 1992 | Different from Introducing Muhammed (Icon, 1994), republished as Introducing Islam (Icon, 2001), by Ziauddin Sardar & Zafar Abbas Malik |
Jazz | 978-0-863161-65-0 | Ron David | Vanessa Holley | 156 | 1995 | |
Jewish Holocaust | 978-0-86316-182-7 | Stuart Justman | Rebecca Shope | 120 | 1995 | |
JFK | 978-0-86316-104-9 | Errol Selkirk | Naomi Rosenblatt | 160 | 1988 | Revised edition published in 1992 |
Jung | 978-0863161841 | Jon Platania | Joe Lee | 153 | 1997 | |
Judaism | 978-0863161018 | Charles Szlakman | Charles Szlakman | 192 | 1990 | |
Kierkegaard | 978-0-86316-192-6 | Donald D. Palmer | Donald D. Palmer | 160 | 1996 | |
Krishnamurti | 978-0863162763 | Juan Carlos Kreimer, | Martin Arvallo | 192 | 1999 | |
Lacan | 978-0-86316-227-5 | Phillip Hill | David Leach | 176 | 1997 | Different from Introducing Lacan (Icon, 2000) by Darian Leader and Judy Groves |
Lenin | 978-0-904613-67-4 | Richard Appignanesi | Oscar Zárate | 172 | 1977 | |
London | 0-86316-078-6 | Nita Clarke | Phil Evans | 176 | 1984 | "A political history of London" |
Malcolm X | 978-0-86316-143-8 | Abdul Alkalimat | Abdul Alkalimat | 63 | 1990 | Different from Malcolm X (Reader & Writers, 1992) by Bernard Aquina Doctor |
Malcolm X | 978-0-86316-146-9 | Bernard Aquina Doctor | Bernard Aquina Doctor | 192 | 1992 | Different from Malcolm X (Reader & Writers, 1990) by Abdul Alkalimat |
Mao | 978-0-394738-86-4 | Rius | Rius | 176 | 1980 | |
Marilyn | 978-0-863162-69-5 | Kathryn Hyatt | Kathryn Hyatt | 160 | 1998 | |
Martial Arts | 978-0863161711 | Ron Sieh | Terry Wilson | 155 | 1995 | |
Marx | 978-0-846702-70-2 | Rius | Rius | 156 | 1976 | Translated from Marx para principiantes (1972) |
Marx's Kapital | 978-0-906495-82-7 | David N. Smith | Phil Evans | 192 | 1982 | Different from "Marx's Das Kapital for Beginners" (For Beginners, 2012) by Michael Wayne & Sungyon Choi |
McLuhan | 978-0-86316-231-2 | W. Terrence Gordon | Susan Willmarth | 176 | 1997 | |
Medicine | 978-0863160073 | Tony Pinchuck | Richard Clark | 176 | 1984 | |
Miles Davis | 978-0863161537 | Daryl Long | Daryl Long | 128 | 1992 | |
Nicaragua | 978-0863160677 | Rius | Rius | 159 | 1984 | |
Nietzsche | 978-0-86316-118-6 | Marc Sautet | Patrick Boussignac | 192 | 1990 | Translated from the French Nietzsche pour débutants (1986) |
Nuclear Power | 978-0-906495-62-9 | Stephen Croall | Kaianders Sempler | 176 | 1985 | Originally published as Anti-Nuclear Handbook (1978) |
Opera | 978-1-934389-80-5 | Ron David | Paul Gordon | 168 | 1996 | Different from "The History of Opera" (For Beginners, 2013) by Ron David & Sara Woolley |
Orwell | 978-0-86316-066-0 | David N. Smith | Michael Mosher | 192 | 1984 | |
Pan-Africanism | 978-0863161483 | Sid Lemelle | Ife Nii Owoo | 176 | 1992 | |
Peace | 978-0863160080 | Ian Kellas | Ian Kellas | 192 | 1984 | |
Philosophy | 978-0-86316-157-5 | Richard Osborne | Ralph Edney | 192 | 1992 | Different from Introducing Philosophy (Icon, Sept. 2007) by Dave Robinson and Judy Groves |
Piaget | 978-0863162886 | Ian Kellas | Rodrigo Suárez | 192 | 1999 | |
Plato | 978-0-86316-039-4 | Robert Cavalier | Eric Lurio | 160 | 1990 | |
Postmodernism | 978-0-86316-188-9 | Jim Powell | Joe Lee | 163 | 1998 | Different from Introducing Postmodernism (Icon, Sept. 2007) by Richard Appignanesi, Chris Garratt, Ziauddin Sardar, and Patrick Curry |
Psychiatry | 978-0-046160-30-2 | Eia Asen | Bernard Canavan | 176 | 1986 | Different from Psychiatry (Reader & Writers, 1993) by David Brizer & Ricardo Castañeda |
Psychiatry | 978-0-863161-66-7 | David Brizer | Ricardo Castañeda | 176 | 1993 | Different from Psychiatry (Reader & Writers, 1986) by Eia Asen, Bernard Canavan |
Rainforests | 978-0863160059 | Naomi Rosenblatt | Naomi Rosenblatt | 96 | 1992 | |
Reagan | 978-0-863160-65-3 | David Smith | Melinda Gebbie | 192 | 1984 | |
Reich | 978-0049210325 | David Zane Mairowitz | German Gonzales | 176 | 1986 | |
Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy | 978-0-863162-86-2 | Lia Tummer | Horacio Lato | 192 | May 2001 | |
Sartre | 978-0-86316-177-3 | Donald D. Palmer | Donald D. Palmer | 160 | 1995 | |
Sai Baba | 978-0863162572 | Marcelo Berenstein | Miguel Ángel Scenna | 192 | 1999 | |
Saussure | 978-1939994417 | W. Terrence Gordon | Abbe Lubell | 128 | 1996 | |
Scotland | 978-0863162640 | Jeff Fallow | Jeff Fallow | 192 | 1999 | |
Sex | 978-0-86316-011-0 | Errol Selkirk | Naomi Rosenblatt | 221 | 1987 | |
Shakespeare[21] | 978-0-86316-228-2 | Brandon Toropov | Joe Lee | 224 | 1997 | |
Socialism | 978-0043201947 | Anna Paczuska | Sophie Grillet | 176 | 1986 | |
Stanislavski | 978-1939994356 | David Allen | Jeff Fallow | 196 | 1999 | |
Structuralism and Poststructuralism | 978-0-86316-193-3 | Donald D. Palmer | Donald D. Palmer | 160 | 1995 | |
Trotsky | 978-0-906495-28-5 | Tariq Ali | Phil Evans | 176 | 1980 | |
U.S. Constitution | 978-0-86316-126-1 | Steven Bachman | Joel Pett | 172 | 1984 | Re-issued in 2012 with art by Jorge Díaz |
UN | 978-0-863161-85-8 | Ian Williams | Christian Clark | 160 | 1995 | |
UNICEF | 978-0-863161-97-1 | Christian Clark | Christian Clark | 160 | 1995 | |
Virginia Woolf | 978-0863161339 | Aaron Rosenblatt | Naomi Rosenblatt | 176 | 1987 | |
Wales | 978-0863162848 | Jeff Fallow | Jeff Fallow | 184 | 1999 | |
World War II | 978-0-86316-103-2 | Errol Selkirk | Naomi Rosenblatt & Shey Wolvek-Pfister | 176 | 1991 | |
Zen | 978-0-86316-117-9 | Judith Blackstone, Zoran Josipovic | Donald D. Palmer | 176 | 1985 |
The following for Young Beginners titles were also published by Writers & Readers.
Title | ISBN | Writer(s) | Illustrator | Pages | Publication Date | Notes |
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African History for Young Beginners | 978-0863162381 | Susan David | 64 | 1997 | ||
Mandela for Young Beginners | 978-0-86316-144-5 | Sue Adler | Petra Rohr-Rouendaal | 64 | 1997 |
Other books
- Berger, John
- A Painter of Our Time (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1976)
- About Looking (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1980)
- And Our Faces, my Heart, Brief as Photos (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1984)
- Another Way of Telling (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1980) — with Jean Mohr
- Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1979)
- Pig Earth (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1979)
- Brown, Cynthia Stokes. Literacy in 30 Hours: Paulo Freire’s Process in Northeast Brazil (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1975)
- Freire, Paulo. Education: The Practice of Freedom (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1976) — translation of Educação como prática da liberdade and of Extensión y comunicación
- Fuller, Peter
- Art and Psychoanalysis (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1980)
- Seeing Berger: A Revaluation of Ways of Seeing (Writers and Readers, 1980) ISBN 0-906495-48-2
- Henderson-Holmes, Safiya
- Daily Bread (Harlem Rivers Press/Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc., 1990)
- Madness and a Bit of Hope (Harlem Rivers Press/Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc., 1990)
- Hogan, Desmond. The Ikon Maker (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1979) ISBN 0-904613-55-0
- Jordan, Neil. Night in Tunisia, and Other Stories (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1979)
- Porter, Melinda Camber
- The Art of Love (Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc., 1993) — love poems and paintings
- Badlands (Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc., 1993) — novel[22]
- Searle, Chris
- Classrooms of Resistance (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1975)
- The World in a Classroom (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1977)
- Serge, Victor. Midnight in the Century (Writers and Readers Cooperative, 1981)
See also
References
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