Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly epidemic and the best ways to fight it today. Longtime Washington Post journalist Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. It's a fascinating read: relentlessly honest, sometimes scathing, alway principled." -Stephen Lewis, Founder/Director of AIDS-Free World, Former UN Special Envoy on AIDS in Africa With rare clarity, Tinderbox lays bare the origins of the AIDS virus, and then reveals the often hapless and delinquent responses of the international community. , Bigsby Professor at U.C Berkeley and author of Ever Since Adam and Eve Tinderbox is every bit as good, revealing the same denial, the same story of politics trumping science, and the same tragedy. “Randy Shilts’s And the Band Played On was the first-and for decades the best-book on AIDS. Tinderbox is an indictment of Western ineptitude and meddling and lost opportunities to prevent millions of infections and deaths." -Stephanie Nolen, author of 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa “Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin have written a searing book about the AIDS epidemic. Tinderbox brilliantly outlines the successes, failures, and missed opportunities in the battle of HIV prevention over the last thirty years." -Elly Katabira, M.D., President, International AIDS Society Their book is entertaining, thought-provoking, human, and in the end, hopeful for a continent that craves some answers after two decades of HIV prevention failures.” -Francois Venter, M.D., president, Southern African HIV Clinicians Society “Timberg and Halperin have been challenging conventional wisdom for years. December 1-January 30: $25 donation periodįeel free to visit our Facebook page, our Twitter page, or Instagram to keep up with the happenings.“The sometimes glorious, often tragic constellation of science, politics, and personalities in the fight against AIDS comes to life in the masterful storytelling of an energetic journalist and a passionate scientist.” -Arthur Allen, author of Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver December 1-7*: fee-free open reading period Winter (December & January): Poetry & Hybrid Manuscripts July 1-7*: fee-free open reading period Summer (July & August): Prose & Prose-like Manuscripts Our manuscript reading periods will operate as follows: We are still reading from the winter reading period, and so far, we've already taken three manuscripts, and many other gorgeous books that are in production have come from these open reading periods as well. Truly, if you are submitting to fee-free or paying the donation with an open heart and an earnest desire to be published by our press and know what that means, we cannot wait to read what you've written. Know that we wouldn't have this note if we didn't have to we got burned in a previous reading period, and we're trying to keep the fee-free available to those who need it. Please don't take a fee-free spot when you could afford to donate to the press and let that money go towards the production of the next book. We put our money into our books and the artists who write and design them, and we want the donation-free option to be a guilt-free way to keep the doors open for those who couldn't otherwise afford to pay the fees that keep us going. We write this because we take our work seriously, and we are a volunteer-run operation. We know this can be expensive and cost prohibitive for many. Please note that the fee-free option is meant for those who cannot afford to pay the reading fee-it is there for students, those with low-income, adjuncts, and everyone else who simply doesn't have the money available.
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